( )1. A. attention
( )2. A. river
( )3. A. skating
( )4. A. afternoon
( )5. A. after
( )6. A. go
( )7. A. found
( )8. A. lonely
( )9. A. noisy
( )10. A. changed
( )11. A. filled
( )12. A. hit
( )13. A. day
( )14. A. head
( )15. A. left
( )16. A. worried
( )17. A. lying
( )18. A. raising
( )19. A. place
( )20. A. take up | B. behavior
B. pond
B. fishing
B. morning
B. until
B. run
B. threw
B. single
B. happy
B. disappeared
B. controlled
B. dragged
B. hour
B. hand
B. succeeded
B. surprised
B. standing
B. shaking
B. mind
B. make up with | C. explanation
C. lake
C. swimming
C. evening
C. as
C. sit
C. took
C. alone
C. small
C. increased
C. covered
C. set
C. minute
C. arm
C. tried
C. excited
C. laughing
C. holding
C. defense
C. bring up | D. reason
D. dam
D. skiing
D. night
D. if
D. wait
D. hid
D. afraid
D. young
D. stopped
D. loaded
D. tapped
D. second
D. leg
D. survived
D. exhausted
D. crawling
D. washing
D. rescue
D. come up with |
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| 1-5: CBAAB 6-10: DDCAB 11-15: CADAB 16-20: DBCDD |
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| 阅读理解。 | Burn rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate was $ 75,000 a month.
Four months after my company was set up, I had only a quarter of the starting capital left in the bank.
Looking for guidance, I went to talk to my friend, Arthur Walworth about my new venture. "Times
of great change always bring out the risk-takers," he said."And they leave winners and losers. My
grandfather invested a lot of money in a project of Thomas Edison" s that ended up in failure."
I was lost in thought at the notion(an idea or belief about something) of a Thomas Edison project
ending in failure. Damn. It could happen to anybody! I must continue.
At that time CD-ROM sales had bombed, so investors were fleeing from the field. I didn"t turn away
from mine entirely, but instead linked it to the internet.
My plan was to offer consumers descriptions of home-design products by using a special software
and let them modify the designs. Then we can enable them to get online professional and constructional
help to have their houses built, decorated and furnished according to their own choice.
To realize my plan I needed investors, so I continued to meet regularly with venture capitalists. One
said I had a great idea. But I needed to test it. Get the money somewhere. To get this money from a
venture capitalist is going to cost my wife and my children! He turned down my request.
Wife? Children? I hardly remembered them.
I was working nonstop-struggling to turn the key in the lock, to find the right way ahead. The pressure
was terrible. It was just at this time that my parents and sisters stepped up. Two hundred thousand dollars.
A lot of money to them, invested in this crazy son and brother without a moment"s hesitation. Dad and
Mom had driven out from Chicago and seen the passion in my little office and the trouble at home.
With their help my company survived and has been prospering ever since. | | 1. When the author"s company started operation, he had _____. | A. $ 450,000
B. $ 400,000
C. $ 350,000
D. $ 300,000 | | 2. Arthur implies that to start a business in times of change, people have to _____. | A. rely on famous people all be time
B. invest as much money as possible
C. face the risks of possible failure
D. think about nothing but success | | 3. The author"s company was engaged in _____. | A. furniture design and production
B. online home-design service
C. traditional home designing
D. home decoration business | | 4. Faced with a very unfavorable market situation, the author decided _______ . | A. to improve his service
B. to start a new business
C. to withdraw his money
D. to reduce his investment | | 完形填空。 | I still remember the days when I was a youthful student in an engineering school. I lived a 1 life,
without caring about the future. I smoked, drank with friends and made girl friends. 2 did I realize that
casualness would certainly lead to loss.
Two years had passed and I was 3 at a report card that highlighted FAIL in more than half the
subjects. I didn"t 4 , at least not till my dad found out about it. You see, I studied in India and 5 the
United States where the students are expected to finance their own education, my dad financed me.
Then came the day when my dad found out my 6 of smoking. He lost his temper 7 he just told me,
"Son, your 8 is cut in half from this moment on". It 9 me like a roundhouse kick (回旋踢) from Bruce
Lee. I was jolted (震摇) out of my bones! I couldn"t comprehend how to pay off the debts that I had 10 in
college. I owed everybody 11 : the grocery store, the bars, the restaurants, my friends, etc. I was living a
life filled with 12 . When I went back to college, I knew that if I didn"t 13 the way I lived my life I
wouldn"t be able to pay everybody off. So I decided to make some changes. I quit smoking, 14 from my
friends who led me down the wrong road, starting 15 out in libraries and reading my engineering books.
One year later, I went from a 16 failure to a magna cum laude (优等成绩). Life was never the same
again. This incident made me know that anything is 17 if you take action and do something about it, 18
small or large. Even today it still 19 me when I feel that I"m about to lose or give up. It 20 me that I can
do it! | ( )1. A. happy
( )2. A. Little
( )3. A. breaking
( )4. A. care
( )5. A. as
( )6. A. habit
( )7. A. and
( )8. A. income
( )9. A. pleased
( )10. A. accumulated
( )11. A. friendship
( )12. A. joy
( )13. A. change
( )14. A. cut off
( )15. A. carrying
( )16. A. small
( )17. A. helpful
( )18. A. however
( )19. A. educates
( )20. A. calls | B. casual
B. Much
B. putting
B. hope
B. between
B. manner
B. but
B. education
B. made
B. brought
B. help
B. sadness
B. choose
B. took away
B. hanging
B. sudden
B. possible
B. even
B. shows
B. guarantees | C. hard
C. Often
C. staring
C. go
C. in
C. process
C. so
C. allowance
C. shocked
C. received
C. money
C. business
C. take
C. picked out
C. eating
C. reliable
C. important
C. still
C. motivates
C. persuades | D. busy
D. Nor
D. writing
D. stop
D. unlike
D. sign
D. otherwise
D. time
D. hit
D. earned
D. time
D. credit
D. decide
D. get down
D. setting
D. miserable
D. urgent
D. though
D. warns
D. reminds | | 完形填空。 | I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I used to give a lot of money to the homeless,feeling 1 for them.
But as time passed, I became a mom with no home, a huge 2 , and hardly any income. As a result, I 3
giving money to the people on the side of the road and became very 4 .
Things started to change for me 5 . I had a home, a backyard for my daughter,and plenty of food, and
I started to 6 myself out of debt. One day we saw a homeless person with the 7 , "Will work for food." I
8 . My daughter commented. "Mommy, you used to always give money to those people in 9 ." I replied,
"Honey, they just use that money for 10 , or other bad things." She didn"t respond. 11 when I said that, I
didn"t feel right.
Three days later, I was driving to 12 my daughter from school. A man was standing on the corner, and
something deep 13 me said,"Just help the guy." So I 14 down my window, and he ran over excitedly. He
said,"God bless you, I only need 77 cents." I 15 into my ashtray (烟灰缸) and strangely enough, there 16
three quarters and two pennies.
I picked them up and gave them to him. He 17 with joy and tears in his eyes."Wow, you just made it 18
for me to see my mom for Christmas! Thank you so much; the 19 that had this great sale is leaving in 20
minutes!" It was a moment I"ll 20 forever. I think that man won"t forget it either, but I was the one who got
the best gift in life-GIVING. | ( )1. A. angry
( )2. A. debt
( )3. A. continued
( )4. A. rich
( )5. A. slowly
( )6. A. save
( )7. A. determined
( )8. A. ran away
( )9. A. danger
( )10. A. life
( )11. A. And
( )12. A. bring up
( )13. A. on
( )14. A. rolled
( )15. A. reached
( )16. A. hid
( )17. A. stood up
( )18. A. possible
( )19. A. plane
( )20. A. thank | B. sorry
B. burden
B. appreciated
B. pleased
B. immediately
B. pull
B. sign
B. turned back
B. love
B. book
B.So
B. carry out
B. inside
B. pushed
B. went
B. stood
B. turned up
B. meaningful
B. bus
B. respect | C. grateful
C. disease
C. hated
C. relaxed
C. quickly
C. run
C. child
C. passed by
C. need
C. food
C. But
C. pick up
C. behind
C. blew
C. knocked
C. slept
C. set out
C. wonderful
C. woman
C. remember | D. strange
D. problem
D. stopped
D. bitter
D. greatly
D. feed
D. advertisement
D. sped up
D. sadness
D. smoking
D. Even
D. take out
D. over
D. took
D. shouted
D. sat
D. burst out
D. interesting
D. man
D. hold | | 阅读理解。 | Everybody has one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry.
He got up one morning very late because he had forgotten to wind up his alarm clock. He tried to shave
quickly and cut himself when he got blood all over his clean shirt, so he had to find another one. The only
other shirt that was clean needed ironing, so he ironed it. While he was ironing it, there was a knock at the
door. It was the man to read the electricity meter, he showed him where the meter was, said goodbye and
found that the iron had burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had to wear the one with the blood on it after all. By
this time it was very late, so he decided he couldn"t go to work by bus. He telephoned for a taxi to take him
to work. The taxi arrived and Harry got in and began to read the newspaper.
In another part of the town, a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to run away in a taxi.
When Harry"s taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman happened to be standing there. He saw the blood
on Harry"s shirt and took him to the police station. He was kept till 3 o"clock in the afternoon before the
policeman was sure that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about four,
his boss took a look at him and told him to go away and find another job. | | 1. Harry had _____. | A. a lucky day
B. an unlucky day
C. a busy day
D. a good day | 2. Put the following sentences into correct order according to the passage.
a. The man who read the electricity meter came.
b. Harry ironed his shirt.
c. Harry got blood all over his clean shirt.
d. There was a knock at the door.
e. Harry wore the shirt with blood on it. | A. a, b, c, d, e
B. b, a, d, c, e
C. b, a, c, d, e
D. c, b, d, a, e | | 3. Why did Harry wear the shirt with blood on it? | A. The iron had burnt a hole on his clean shirt.
B. The only other needed ironing.
C. He had only one shirt.
D. He cut himself and got blood on his shirt. | | 4. Harry was taken to police station because ______. | A. His taxi stopped outside his office and policeman happened to be there
B. There was blood on his shirt and he was in the taxi
C. A man killed a woman with a knife
D. The killer was seen to run away in the a taxi | | 5. His boss told him to go away and find another job because _____. | A. he had been kept by the police
B. there was blood on his shirt
C. he was late for work
D. he had killed a woman | | 阅读理解。 | It was a week before Christmas, but things were far from cheery. Our task was to deliver as many boxes
of food as possible to those in need in Camden, New Jersey. There were no Christmas carolers (唱颂歌的人)
walking these streets that were lined with boarded-up (用木板封住的) houses and broken windows. Mothers
kept their children close as they hurried down the streets. It was mid-afternoon, but even the bright sun couldn"t warm this place.
Red tickets in the windows marked which houses we were to visit. Our white truck stopped in front of one
townhouse and our group knocked on the door. In our arms were boxes filled with ham, bread and other
essentials to make the perfect Christmas dinner. Four small faces glanced through the curtains and one
exhausted mom answered the door. She seemed embarrassed to be caught in her nightgown with undone hair.
She was in her mid-20s, but her rough skin and tired eyes added years.
"Sacred Heart food delivery service," I smiled."Where can we put this for you?"
She pointed and as we entered the house, I noticed the conditions they lived in. The children climbed around, wearing only diapers (尿布). There were no carpets, only cold concrete beneath our feet. There was no
Christmas tree or decorations. My heart sank. It was so cold, and I found it hard to believe that this was reality
for this family. We set the boxes down and the mother grabbed my hand.
"You don"t know how much of a blessing this is to me and my family," she said, crying."We are just getting by." I opened my arms and gave her a hug.
"Happy holidays!" I replied before I headed out the door. I realized how warm I felt inside. This was unlike
anything I had ever experienced. We cannot help what family we are born into, but we can help each other. | | 1. From Paragraph 1, we can infer that Camden may be a place where ______. | A. the living conditions were terrible
B. people had no belief
C. there was no sign of life
D. little sunshine was received | | 2. What impression did the woman leave on the author? | A. She was shy and cold to visitors.
B. She was confident and energetic.
C. She wasn"t good at dressing herself up.
D. She looked much older than her age. | | 3. By saying "We are just getting by", the woman meant ______. | A. they were waiting for help
B. they were looking for food and clothing
C. they were going to move away
D. they were living a very poor life | | 4. The passage mainly tells us that _______. | A. the poor can also help others
B. assisting the poor needs actions
C. people should help each other
D. having more children causes poverty | 最新试题
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