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For six hours we shot through the landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and I just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I"d bought in a market in Mozambique. Southern Africa was full of stories. And visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. And then the other things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room, a kilometre from clean water. As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty-we hadn"t seen another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving next to me. I glanced in the mirror of the car; I glanced sideways to the right, and that was when I saw them. Next to us, by the side of the road, thirty, forty wild horses were racing the car, a cloud of dust rising behind them-brown, muscular horses almost close enough to touch them, to smell their hot breath. I didn"t know how long they had been there next to us. I shouted to Dan: "Look!", but he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet. They raced the car for a few seconds, then disappeared far behind us, a memory of heroic forms in the red landscape. When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened. "Wild horses?" he said. "Why didn"t you wake me up?" "I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds." "Are you sure you didn"t dream it?" "You were the one who was sleeping!" "Typical, he said. "The best photos are the ones we never take." We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead. |
1. During their journey in Africa, the two travelers________ |
A. made friends with local residents B. complained about the poor living conditions C. enjoyed the sunset in the Karoo desert most D. recorded their experiences in different ways |
2. What does the phrase "heroic forms" in Paragraph 4 refer to? |
A. Racing cars. B. Wild horses. C. Eye-catching locals. D. Running dogs. |
3. What did Daniel think when he woke up and was told what had happened? |
A. He always missed out on the best thing. B. He had already taken beautiful pictures. C. A sound sleep was more important. D. The next trip would be better. |
4. What is "the passage mainly about? |
A. How to view wildlife in Africa. B. Running into wildlife in Africa. C. Tourist attractions in southern Africa. D. Possible dangers of travelling in the desert. |
答案
1-4: D B A B |
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The wisdom my 77-year-old father has passed on to me came more through osmosis (潜移默化) than lectures. My dad"s 1 shines through all my life. Old age hasn"t 2 him, mainly because he doesn"t think almost-80 is old. He had ever trained for a charity (慈善) 3 across the Hudson River in New York. He wore his custom-fitted diving suit, but he still got so 4 . We warmed him and wrapped him in a sleeping bag. "Oh, 5 , it isn"t that bad," he"d say, "I am fine. " He always is. He did 6 the Hudson swim a month later. If you ask my father whether or not his life has been hard, he will say he is 7 . He means the kind of happiness that comes from 8 a well-cooked family meal, taking a good long run or growing a perfect tomato. Did I mention that he used to run marathons before his knee replacement surgery? He"s the one who 9 me I could do it, too. " 10 can run a marathon," he said, "as long as you keep training. " My father was born in 1933. His childhood took a 11 at the beginning of World War Ⅱ : His father joined the French Army and was 12 by the Germans and spent the war in a prison camp. My dad and his mother and sister were shipped off to New Jersey to live with relatives. His mother 13 from depression, and Dad went to boarding school in New England from the sixth grade on. Yet in all Dad"s dinner table 14 , there have been many times when he turned them into 15 stories. After a family dinner the other night, Papa Bob advised us to try the skydiving 16 "Sixty-five seconds of free falling," he said. "I 17 it. I should have been a paratrooper" He loves getting cards in the mail, and usually I"m 18 , so instead I call him on Father"s Day. But this year I"ve 19 to be early for once. I want to let him know how much he 20 to me. Dad, thank you-for all of it and mostly for your enduring faith that everything will be OK. |
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The Best Holiday I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter, Emily. 1 to buy a mountain bike, she"d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to earn extra money. By Thanksgiving , she had collected only $49. I said, " You 2 have your pick from my bicycle 3 ". "Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old. " She was right. All my girls" bikes were 1950s models , not the kind a kid today would 4 choose. As Christmas 5 near, Emily and I went bike shopping . As we left one store, she 6 a Salvation Army volunteer standing next to a big pot. "Can we give something, Daddy?" She asked. "Sorry, Em, I"m out of 7 . " Throughout December, Emily continued to work hard. Then one day, she made a 8 announcement. "You know all the money I"ve been saving?" she said hesitantly. "I"m going to give it to the poor people. " So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $58 to a volunteer who was really very 9 . 10 by Emily"s selflessness, I decided to contribute 11 of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children. 12 I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow. Should I contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn"t 13 the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later 14 the bikes, the car dealer said, "You"re making two kids very 15 , sir . Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we"re 16 away one chance to win a girl"s mountain bike. " Why wasn"t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the 17 ? I like to think it was God"s way of 18 a little girl for a sacrifice 19 her year--while giving her dad a lesson in the 20 . |
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There has been an outpouring of love for, a 23-year-old disabled woman whose dog was killed in front of her while a groomer (美容师) tried to trim (修剪) its claws. Calls and e-mails came from as far away as the Upper Peninsula and Arizona as well as Oakland and Macomb counties, offering Laurie Crouch, who uses a wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis (硬 化症), everything from dogs to money, such as that from Jason Daly of Roseville who said, " I would like to buy her a new dog." A story about the death of Crouch"s pet, Gooch, was printed on the front page of Macomb Daily. Crouch said a man sat on the dog to trim its nails. Gooch died after one claw was trimmed. Crouch yelled at the groomer to stop when she saw Gooch was struggling to breathe, but she said she was ignored. "If I could have walked, I would have put my hands on her and pulled her off my dog and physically stopped her, but I can"t do that." Gooch was not a trained service animal, but naturally helped Crouch by picking up things for her. "This case is absolute animal abuse ( 虐待)," Larry Obrecht, division manager of the Oakland County Animal Shelter in Auburn Hills, said. People who read the story contacted Oakland Press to offer help. A message, from Rebecca Amett of Giggles N Wiggles Puppy Rescue, in Roseville, said, "We have puppies to donate … and want to help the young woman who lost her service dog." "When Gooch was with me, I was happy," Crouch said, "I think I can be happy again but no animal can replace Gooch. There"s never going to be another Gooch out there but I think I will find a dog that can bring me joy again." |
1. What does the passage mainly tell us? |
A. A disabled woman"s service dog. B. A cruel groomer killed a disabled woman"s dog. C. People"s love for a disabled woman who lost her dog. D. Disabled woman loves to have the dog as company. |
2. People called and emailed to ____. |
A. offer help and care to Laurie Crouch. B. give their angry voice to the groomer. C. offer a cure for Crouch"s disease. D. tell Crouch how to punish the groomer. |
3. Gooch died mainly because _____ . |
A. the groomer was careless. B. the groomer sat on the dog with another man. C. the dog was wearing a collar. D. the groomer didn"t know how to trim the dog"s nails |
4. We can infer from the passage that ____ . |
A. Crouch refused to take another dog. B. Crouch must be sad after losing her dog. C. Crouch has accepted another dog from a stranger. D. Crouch can live well without a dog"s company. |
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A disheveled (头发凌乱的) man appeared in court Thursday on charges of murdering a Chinese woman whose fight with her attacker was seen on webcam (摄像头) by her boyfriend in China. Police refused to release any details about the crime or its possible motive. The body of York University student Liu Qian, 23, of Beijing, was found Friday in her apartment in Toronto a few hours after her boyfriend witnessed the attack, police said. She was found undressed from the waist down but there were no obvious signs of sexual attack or trauma (创伤) severe enough to kill her. Police say it may be weeks before the results of an autopsy (尸 体解剖) are known. Brian Dickson, 29, stood before the court in a wrinkled white shirt and blue jeans as a charge of first- degree murder was read out. He did not enter a plea. His case was held over until April 26. Dickson was arrested Wednesday. Police only announced his name and his age and asked the media not to publish any photos of Dickson, saying it could compromise the investigation. Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella declined to respond to the request further. Liu"s father, Liu Jianhui, who arrived from China after being informed of his daughter"s death, thanked authorities for their quick action. "I sincerely thank the people concerned with my daughter"s case," he told reporters after the arrest. "Our daughter was studying very hard." Police released no motive or details about Dickson, but one friend described the Toronto man as an aspiring actor. Patricia Tomasi, a friend of Dickson"s, told The Associated Press that she acted in a play at a local theater in Toronto with Dickson in 2007. "He doesn"t seem like the type but that"s what they always say," Tomasi said. "He"s tall with boyish good looks. I don"t know much about him except that he wanted to be an actor." Dickson attended York University where he studied global politics, but did not earn a degree from there. He later worked for the Atlantic Council of Canada (ACC), where he served as an assistant to the president Juilie Lindhout. According to his biography on a newsletter from the Atlantic Council of Canada, Dickson has also been a running instructor and has been involved with Developments in Literacy, a Pakistani aid organization that raises money for children in Pakistan. A statement from the Atlantic Council of Canada on Thursday said it was not council policy to comment on staff, but it confirmed that Dickson had been an intern(实习生) with the council from September 29, 2008, until March 27, 2009. Liu was chatting with her boyfriend, Meng Xianchao, by webcam at about 1 am. Friday when a man knocked on the door, police said. Meng reported seeing a struggle break out between the two before Liu"s webcam was shut off. Meng contacted other friends in Toronto who in turn called police. The victim"s father, Liu Jianhui, said his daughter studied at Beijing City University before moving to Canada, where she met Meng. Liu Qian"s laptop computer, webcam and mobile phone were taken from the apartment the night of the attack, police said. Police said the online chat was on a live streaming camera and was not recorded, though investigators were trying to figure out if there was any way they could recover it. York University, whose campus is located near one of Toronto"s rougher neighborhoods, is one of Canada"s largest universities with more than 53,000 undergraduate and graduate students. About 3,200 of York"s students come from more than 150 foreign countries, the university"s website says. |
1. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? |
A. York University students come from over 150 foreign countries. B. Dickson was a graduate of York University where he studied global politics. C. The passage does not mention the reason why Dickson murdered Liu Qian. D. ACC wouldn"t make any comments on staff even if they committed a crime. |
2. The underlined word in paragraph 8 probably means ______. |
A. a successful actor B. a gifted actor C. a common actor D. an ambitious actor |
3. Why did police ask the media not to publish any photos of Dickson? |
A. Worrying about bad influences on the investigation. B. Not intending to give out any information about Dickson. C. Not confirming whether Dickson had killed Liu Qian. D. Wanting to protect their citizen for fear of losing face. |
4. What can be inferred from the text? |
A. Developments in Literacy raises money for all children B. Seeing the struggle, Meng contacted Toronto police. C. Dickson had no bad records before the murder. D. Investigators could recover the chat record online. |
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Cindy Green had a serious telephone problem. The brand-new $100 million Ribrock Plaza Hotel opened nearby and had 1 almost the same telephone number as Cindy"s. From the moment the hotel opened, Cindy was 2 by calls not for her. Since she had the same phone number for years, she felt that she should 3 the hotel management to change its number. 4 , the management refused. The phone company was not 5 , either. It argued that a number was a number, and the fact that a customer was getting someone else"s 6 twenty-four hours a day didn"t make it 7 . After her request fell on deaf ears, Cindy decided to take 8 into her own hands. At 9 o"clock the phone rang. Someone from Memphis was calling the hotel and 9 a room for the following Tuesday. Cindy said, "No 10 . How many nights?" A few hours later a secretary called and said that she wanted a suite (套房) 11 two bedrooms for a week. Cindy replied that the Presidential Suite was 12 for $600 a night. The secretary said that she would 13 it. The next day was a 14 one for Cindy. In the morning, she booked a car producer"s conference for Memorial Day weekend. Her biggest 15 came in the afternoon-a mother called to book the ballroom for her daughter"s wedding in June. Cindy hesitated for a while, but still 16 the woman that it would be no problem. Within a few months, the Ribrock Plaza Hotel was a disaster area. People kept 17 for weddings, reunions (聚会) and parties, and were all 18 that there were no such events. Soon after, she read in a 19 that the hotel might go bankrupt (***).Her phone rang, and a manager from Marriott said, "We"re prepared to 20 you $2 million for the hotel." Cindy replied, "We"ll take it, but only if you change the telephone number." |
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