阅读理解。    The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer i

阅读理解。    The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer i

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阅读理解。    The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer is down." You hear it more and
more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and
the girl in the ticket office said, "I"m sorry, I can"t sell you a ticket.Our computer is down."
     "If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."
     "I can"t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."
     I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring
at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?"
     "We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us
or not."
      "So when it goes down, you go down with it."
      "That"s good, sir."
      "How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know.
      "I have no idea. Sometimes it"s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There"s no way we can
find out without asking the computer, and since it"s down it won"t answer us."
      After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let"s forget the computer. What
about your planes? They"re still flying, aren"t they?"
      "I couldn"t tell without asking the computer." 
      "Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he"s flying to Washington," I suggested.
      "I wouldn"t know what gate to send you to.Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn"t take
you if you didn"t have a ticket."
      "Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?"
      "I wouldn"t know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only it knows. It can"t tell me."
      By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that
the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their
luggage. 1. The best title for the article is _____.

[     ]

A. When the Computer Is Down
B. The Most Frightening Words
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. Asking the Computer 2. What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

[     ]

A. She could sell a ticket.
B. She could write out a ticket.
C. She could answer the passengers" questions.
D. She could do nothing. 3. Why do you think they had not a backup computer?

[     ]

A. Because it was easy down
B. Because it was very expensive.
C. Because it was not advanced enough.
D. Because it was not as big as the main computer. 4. The last paragraph suggests that _____.

[     ]

A. a modern computer won"t be down.
B. computers can take the place of humans
C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
D. there will be great changes in computers
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完形填空。      Two men on a touring holiday were injured by an explosion in their motor van (车) yesterday.
     Shoppers, traders and businessmen in Red Lion Street were   1   by a loud bang, and seconds later the
two men jumped over from the van, which had stopped outside Barclays Bank. Several people rushed to
give   2   and helped to put out the fire   3   the van. A light American truck changed the   4   to provide living
accommodation room (躺的地方),   5   firemen arrived.
     The men, Mr. Cary House, who was driving, and his   6   Mr. Charlie Lynn were taken to hospital with
slight   7  . They were allowed to leave after   8  . "I heard this explosion. It was   9   loud. I thought it could
have been a(n)  10 ." said Mr. Leslie Webster, manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red
Lion Street. "I looked out of the window and saw this lad jump from the van and  11  on the ground. Then
another lad came out of the van. He seemed to be in a  12  state-parts of his trousers were hanging below his
knees."
     "I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher (灭火器), but  13  the time I got outside someone from the
bank was in the  14  with an extinguisher."
     Mr. Webster said both men were shocked. One was taken into the market"s office to wait for a(n)  15 .
"The second man  16  going back into the van to see if everything was  17 , and five minutes later he came
out with a drawer that was blazing (burning)." he added. 
      18  inside the van was mainly superficial (表面的),  19  a plastic window was blown out.
     The two men have spent the last six months  20 . At the time of the incident their wives were shopping in
the city.
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(     )1. A. disappointed
(     )2. A. call       
(     )3. A. inside     
(     )4. A. plan       
(     )5. A. after      
(     )6. A. wife       
(     )7. A. wounds     
(     )8. A. operation  
(     )9. A. much       
(     )10. A. bomb      
(     )11. A. lie       
(     )12. A. good      
(     )13. A. at        
(     )14. A. van       
(     )15. A. rescue    
(     )16. A. kept on   
(     )17. A. in order  
(     )18. A. Equipment 
(     )19. A. although  
(     )20. A. touring   
B. excited     
B. warning     
B. outside     
B. mind        
B. before      
B. passenger   
B. sickness    
B. treatment   
B. pretty      
B. fire        
B. die         
B. poor        
B. for         
B. office      
B. doctor      
B. insisted on   
B. in all      
B. Suffering   
B. since       
B. repairing   
C. frightened     
C. report         
C. around         
C. direction      
C. when           
C. visitor        
C. burns          
C. recovery (复原)
C. usually        
C. truck          
C. roll           
C. easier         
C. after          
C. market         
C. firefighter    
C. cared for     
C. all right      
C. Damage         
C. because        
C. moving         
D. shocked           
D. assistance        
D. towards           
D. nature            
D. until             
D. guest             
D. hurts             
D. examination       
D. actually          
D. accident          
D. fall              
D. worse             
D. by                
D. room              
D. ambulance (救护车)       
D. gave up           
D. all over          
D. Condition         
D. so that           
D. cleaning          
完形填空。
     Last week I was invited to a doctor"s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a
patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn"t long to 
  1  , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
     "Frank!" I cried in astonishment. He couldn"t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3   his foot against mine.
     My   4   raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London.
The   6   was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the
regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank. 
       7   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9   me because
he wasn"t  10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had  11  of a mind than a baby
has. His " 12 " consisted of rough sounds-sounds of pleasure or anger and  13  more. Mrs. West, then about
75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank  14  on her entirely. He needed
all the  15  of a baby.
     One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 
 16  nearly everything she owned.
     When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the  17  ones. So before we  18  that morning, I
stood beside Frank and  19  my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took
a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot
against mine. After that, his  20  to me was always the same.
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(     )1.A. work       
(     )2.A. answer     
(     )3.A. covering   
(     )4.A. minds      
(     )5.A. better     
(     )6.A. cave       
(     )7.A. Discussing 
(     )8.A. learn from 
(     )9.A. needed     
(     )1O.A. normal    
(     )11.A. more      
(     )12.A. word      
(     )13.A. not       
(     )14.A. fed       
(     )15.A. attention 
(     )16.A. lost      
(     )17.A. troublesome
(     )18.A. separated 
(     )19.A. pushed    
(     )20.A. nodding   
B. stay      
B. speak     
B. moving    
B. memories  
B. dark      
B. place    
B. Solving   
B. talk to   
B. recognized   
B. common    
B. worse     
B. speech    
B. no        
B. kept      
B. control   
B. needed    
B. unlucky   
B. went      
B. tried     
B. greeting  
C. live      
C. smile     
C. fighting  
C. thoughts  
C. younger   
C. sight     
C. Sharing   
C. help      
C. interested
C. unusual   
C. fewer     
C. sentence  
C. something 
C. lived     
C. treatment 
C. destroyed     
C. angry     
C. reunited  
C. showed    
C. meeting   
 D. expect       
D. laugh        
D. pressing     
D. brains     
D. old        
D. scene        
D. Suffering    
D. know         
D. encouraged   
D. quick        
D. less       
D. language   
D. nothing      
D. depended     
D. management                 
D. left         
D. unpopular    
D. returned     
D. measured     
D. acting     
完形填空。
     Recently, one of my best friends, whom I"ve shared just about everything with since the first day of
kindergarten, spent the week- end with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we"ve both
always   1   the few times a year when we can see each other.
     Over the   2  , we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she
was   3    around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented
with   4   and was into other   5   behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been   6   to her
parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn"t want her   7   
him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she   8   better, she didn"t believe me. Her self-respect seemed
to have disappeared.
     I tried to   9   her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting  10 .
I just couldn"t believe that she really thought it was  11  to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her
boyfriend.
     By the time she left, I was really worried about her and  12  by the experience. It had been so frustrating,
I had come  13  to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to
 14   our friendship-but I didn"t. I put the power of  15  to the ultimate test. We"d been friends for far too long.
The chance was that she  16  me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted
to believe that our friendship could  17  anything.
     A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our  18 , and then she told me
that she had  19  with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running
down my face. It was one of the truly  20  moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
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(     )1.A. worried about   
(     )2.A. weekend         
(     )3.A. working         
(     )4.A. books           
(     )5.A. self-destructive
(     )6.A. explaining      
(     )7.A. on              
(     )8.A. did             
(     )9.A. told            
(     )10.A. somewhere      
(     )11.A. acceptable     
(     )12.A. exhausted      
(     )13.A. almost         
(     )14.A. stop           
(     )15.A. love           
(     )16.A. thought        
(     )17.A. mean           
(     )18.A. friendship     
(     )19.A. broke away     
(     )20.A. demanding      
B. looked forward to
B. months           
B. falling in love  
B. girls            
B. self-respecting  
B. reasoning        
B. beside           
B. deserved         
B. convince         
B. everywhere       
B. believable       
B. surprised        
B. nearly           
B. continue         
B. friendship       
B. remembered       
B. conquer          
B. relationship     
B. broke down       
B. challenging      
C. paid attention to
C. years           
C. hanging         
C. friends         
C. self-confident  
C. declaring       
C. around          
C. had             
C. force           
C. nowhere         
C. reliable        
C. satisfied       
C. close           
C. start           
C. truth           
C. valued          
C. tell            
C. quarrel         
C. broke up        
C. frustrating     
D. think of         
D. days             
D. keeping in touch 
D. drugs            
D. self-defensive   
D. lying            
D. to               
D. got              
D. warn             
D. anywhere         
D. admirable        
D. terrified        
D. over             
D. make             
D. justice          
D. hated            
D. prove            
D. conversation                
D. broke out        
D. rewarding        
阅读理解。
     Robert was born in a small town in England. His father has a farm and can supply him enough money to
finish university where he is studying law. The young man studies hard and hopes to be a famous lawyer.
     Last Monday their term was over. Robert said to his father on the telephone that he was going to travel in
a small country during his summer holiday. His father agreed to his plan and posted some money to him. So
he started four days ago. Their plane landed at the only airport of the country safely. He took a taxi and got to
a hotel in the center of the capital. He felt hungry and tired. So he had a dinner and then a good sleep. This
morning he was all right and was going to visit some places of interest. He met an English visitor while he was
having breakfast and the man told him to be careful of thieves.
     Robert thanked the man and left. But he thought he was smart and strong and he decided to have a try. He
brought a piece of paper and wrote on it, "A pig has stolen my wallet!" Then he put the note into his empty
wallet. After that he put the wallet into a pocket and set off. He did all carefully and hoped to find out who
would steal it.
     "Everything went well, "Robert thought to himself after he had returned to the hotel. He brought out his
wallet and put his money into it again. He had a look at the note. To his surprise, it was rewritten. It said,
"Your uncle has touched your wallet!"
1. Robert can study in the university because            .

[     ]

A. he wants to be a lawyer
B. his father is a rich farmer
C. he"s smart and strong
D. he keeps his wallet well
2. Robert went to the small country to            .

[     ]

A. make fun of the thieves
B. catch some thieves
C. visit the places of interest
D. have a nice meal and a good sleep
3. The English visitor thought            .

[     ]

A. there were a lot of thieves in the city
B. Robert could deal with the thieves
C. it was dangerous to travel in the city
D. Robert had to take good care of himself
完形填空。
     Back in my country, when I was a child, I used to go to "market day" with my mother. One day each
week, farmers used to   1   their fruit and vegetables into the city. They   2   one street to all cars, and the
farmers set up tables for their   3  . This outdoor market was a great place to   4  . Everything was fresher
than produce in grocery stores because the farmers brought it in   5   after the harvest. My mother and I
always got there early in the morning to get the   6   produce.
     The outdoor market was a wonderful adventure for a small child,   7   was like a festival-full of colors
and   8  . There are red tomatoes, yellow lemons, green lettuce, peppers, grapes, onions. The farmers did
their-own   9  . They all shouted loudly for  10  to buy their produce. "Come and buy my beautiful oranges!
They"re juicy and delicious and full of vitamins to  11  your children healthy and strong!"
     Everyone used to  12  with the farmers over the  13  of their produce. It was like a wonderful drama in
a theatre; the buyers and sellers were the " 14 " in this drama. My mother was an  15  at this. First, she picked
the freshest, most attractive tomatoes, for example. Then she asked the price. The seller told her.
     "What?" she said. She looked very surprised. "So  16 ?"
     The seller looked terribly  17 . "My dear lady!" he replied. "I"m a poor,  18  farmer. These are the cheapest
tomatoes on the market!"
     They always argued for several minutes before agreeing  19  a price. My mother took her tomatoes and left.
Both buyer and seller were  20 . The drama was over.
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C. bring     
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C. quality   
C. actors    
C. advancer  
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C. honest       
C. in        
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D. fetch     
D. stopped   
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D. cheapest  
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D. accent    
D. advertising              
D. sellers   
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D. form      
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