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Brave Frenchman Found Halfway Around the World (NEW YORK)A French tourist highly praised for rescuing a twoyearold girl in Manhattan said he didn’t think twice before diving into the freezing East River.
Tuesday’s DailyNews said 29yearold Julien Duret from France is the man who left the spot quickly after the rescue last Saturday.
He lifted the little girl out of the water after she fell off the bank at the South Street Seaport museum.He handed the girl to her father, David Anderson, who had dived in after him.
“I didn’t think at all，” Duret told the DailyNews.“It happened very fast.I reacted very fast.”
Duret, an engineer on vacation, was walking with his girlfriend along the pier (码头) when he saw something falling into the water.He thought it was a doll, but realized it was a child when he approached the river.In an instant, he took off his coat and jumped into the water.
When he reached the girl, she appeared lifeless, he said.Fortunately，when she was out of the water, she opened her eyes.
Anderson said his daughter slipped off the bank when he was adjusting his camera.An ambulance came later for her, said Duret, who was handed dry clothes from onlookers.Duret caught a taxi with his girlfriend shortly after.
The rescue happened on the day before he left for France.Duret said he didn’t realize his tale of heroism had greatly moved New York until he was leaving the city the next morning.
“I don’t really think I’m a hero，”said Duret.“Anyone would do the same thing.”
小题1:Why was Duret in New York?| A．To meet his girlfriend. | | B．To work as an engineer. | | C．To spend his holiday. | | D．To visit the Andersons. |
小题2:What did Duret do shortly after the ambulance came?| A．He was interviewed by a newspaper. | | B．He asked his girlfriend for his dry clothes. | | C．He went to the hospital in the ambulance. | | D．He disappeared from the spot quickly. |
小题3:．Who dived after Duret into the river to save the little girl?| A．David Anderson. | | B．A passerby. | | C．His girlfriend. | | D．A taxi driver. |
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小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:A |
解析
本文是一篇新闻报道类文章。介绍了一位到美国度假旅游的法国工程师成功地救出了一位溺水女孩，成为了纽约的英雄。
小题1:C 细节理解题。根据文章开始的“A French tourist...”和后文中的“Duret, an engineer on vacation, was walking with his girlfriend along the pier(码头) when he saw something falling into the water.”可知Duret 到纽约是为了度假。
小题1:D 细节理解题。根据“...29 year old Julien Duret from France is the man who left the spot quickly after the rescue...”可知Duret 把小女孩从水中救出后立刻与他的女朋友离开了现场。
小题1:A 细节理解题。根据“He handed the girl to her father, David Anderson, who had dived in after him.”可知，继Duret 之后跳进水中的人是这位小女孩的父亲David Anderson。 |
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One of Britain’s bravest women told yesterday how she helped to catch suspected police killer David Bieber -- and was thanked 21 flowers by the police. It was also said that she could 22___ a share of up to ￡30,000 reward money.
Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in 23 the nationwide manhunt. Vicki, who has worked at the Royal Hotel for four years, told of her terrible 24 when she had to steal into Bieber’s bedroom and to watch him 25 . Then she waited alone for three 26 while armed police prepared to 27 the building.
She said, "I was very nervous. But when I opened the hotel door and saw 20 armed policemen
28 in the car park I was so glad they were there.”
The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious of the guest who 29 in at 3 pm the day before New Year’s Eve with little luggage and 30 sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his 31 . She said, "He didn’t seem to want to talk too much and make any eye contact." Vicki, the only employee on duty, called her boss Margaret, 64, and husband Stan McKale, 65, who phoned the police at 11 pm.
Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm to make sure that this was the 32 man. Then they kept in touch by phoning Vicki
33 15 minutes.
"It was about ten past two in the morning 34 the phone went again and a policeman said ‘Would you go and make yourself known to the armed officers outside?’. My heart missed a 35 ."
Vicki quietly showed eight armed officers 36 passages and staircases to the top floor room and 37 over the key.
"I realized that my bedroom window overlooks that part of the hotel, so I went to watch. I could not see into the man’s room, 38 I could see the passage. The police kept 39 at the man to come out with his hands showing. Then suddenly he 40 have come out because they shouted for him to lie down while he was handcuffed (带上手铐)。
小题2:A. charge B. pay C get D. reward
| 小题3: | | A．beginning | B．interrupting | C．pausing | D．ending |
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| 小题4: | | A．stories | B．experience | C．moment | D．day |
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| 小题5: | | A．secretly | B．happily | C．interestedly | D．unexpectedly |
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小题6:A. seconds B minutes C. hours D. days
| 小题7: | | A．burn | B．destroy | C．step | D．storm |
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| 小题8: | | A．come up | B．crowded up | C．lined up | D．taken up |
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| 小题9: | | A．checked | B．signed | C．ordered | D．handed |
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| 小题10: | | A．stealing | B．getting | C．wearing | D．moving |
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| 小题11: | | A．shoulder | B．face | C．stomach | D．ankle |
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| 小题12: | | A．charged | B．escaped | C．wanted | D．found |
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| 小题13: | | A．each | B．other | C．every | D．another |
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| 小题14: | | A．when | B．while | C．which | D．that |
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| 小题16: | | A．across | B．over | C．into | D．through |
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| 小题17: | | A．turned | B．handed | C．stretched | D．reached |
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| 小题18: | | A．and | B．or | C．therefore | D．but |
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| 小题19: | | A．speaking | B．whispering | C．shouting | D．scolding |
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| 小题20: | | A．would | B．could | C．must | D．might |
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Two years ago, the Funk family of suburban Chicago adopted a Chinese baby girl who had been abandoned on a sidewalk near a Yangzhou textile factory.
Last year and halfway across the United States, the Ramirez family of suburban Miami adopted a girl who had been abandoned a week later on the same spot.
Both families named their daughters Mia. It turns out, a first name and Chinese heritage aren’t the only things the three-year-olds have in common. The girls’ mothers—Holly Funk and Diana Ramirez—met on a website for parents who had gone through international adoptions. After a flurry of e-mails comparing photographs and biographical details, DNA testing proved the families’ suspicions: The girls are probably fraternal (手足般的) twins.
“I was in shock,” said Ramirez, who lives with her husband Carlos in Pembroke Pines, Florida. “Well, now this is for real.”
The Internet and Web groups revolving around international orphanages are increasingly being used to link adopted children with biological kin(亲属). The site that the Funks and Ramirezes used has a membership of 137 people, with 15 sets of twins and seven sets of siblings whose relationships have been confirmed.
At a reunion on Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Mia Diamond Funk Mia Hanying Ramirez shyly surveyed each other, then reached for each other’s hand.
DNA tests established an 85 percent probability that the girls are at least half sisters. Scientists did not have a biological parent to test and reach a greater certainty, but given their ages and physical similarities, experts say it is likely they are fraternal twins.
Douglas and Holly Funk hope to take Mia to Miami in October. Both sets of parents say they are committed to staying in touch and often let the twins talk to each other on the phone.
小题1:. Both the adopted girls shared a first name ________.| A．because they both came from China | | B．because of their physical similarities | | C．because their US parents suspected they were twins | | D．for no good reason |
小题2: Why did the girls’ mothers meet on the Internet?| A．To compare photographs of the two girls. | | B．To communicate with other people who had adopted children abroad. | | C．To test their suspicion. | | D．To exchange experiences on adopting children. |
小题3:Experts are still not 100 percent sure that the two girls are fraternal twins because ________.| A．DNA tests are still not accurate enough | | B．the two girls were born by different parents | | C．the DNA of a biological parent is still missing | | D．one girl is born a week later than the other |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Adopted Twins Reunited on Internet | | B．Adopted Twins Live happily in the US. | | C．Suspicion Turned into Reality | | D．The Story of Adopted Twins and Their Parents |
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OLYMPIA, March 24—Luo Xuejuan, a swimming gold medalist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, became the first Chinese person to relay the Olympic Flame in Greece on Monday, receiving the flame from the first Olympic torchbearer(火炬手), Greek Alexandros Nikolaidis.
Despite her previous experience as a torchbearer in the Beijing leg of the Athens 2004 torch relay, Luo felt honored and proud of being chosen as the first Chinese torchbearer, the Xihua News Agency reported Luo as saying in an interview.
She talked about the great responsibility that she felt, as she believed she was representing every Chinese athlete and even Chinese person by running her leg of the relay.
Regarding missing the torch lighting ceremony because she had to be in an assigned location to wait for the flame, Luo felt no regret. “Even though I couldn’t see it, I was able to feel the flame light and knew that it was happening at a place nearby,” she said.
Luo expressed her belief that even if people couldn’t communicate with words, the Olympic Flame enables the transmission of the Olympic spirit and brings smiles wherever it might go. In Luo’s mind, the Olympic spirit represents purity, competition, friendship, enthusiasm, peace and harmony.
小题1:Why didn’t Luo see the torch lighting ceremony?
A. She was late for the ceremony.
| B. She was not allowed to go there.
| C. She waited for the flame as the next torchbearer.
| D. The ceremony took place at a place far away.
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小题2:Choose the best explanation for the underlined word “leg” in Paragraph Three.
A. One of the long parts that connect the feet to the rest of the body.
| B. The part of a pair of trousers.
| C. One of the long thin parts on the bottom of a table.
| D. One part of a journey or race.
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小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Luo Xuejuan was the first Olympic torchbearer in Greece.
| B. Luo had never been selected as a torchbearer before.
| C. Luo believed that the Olympic flame helped communication among people.
| D. Luo felt regretful because she missed the torch lighting ceremony.
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小题4:What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Luo Xuejuan: A Swimming Gold Medalist.
| B. The Torch Lighting Ceremony
| C. The Torch Relay Had Begun
| D. Luo Xuejuan: the First Chinese Torchbearer of Athens Torch Relay
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小题5:This passage is most likely to be seen in a .
A. novel
| B. newspaper
| C. magazine
| D. textbook
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London, Reuters---What could annoy teenagers enough to make them stop hanging out with friends and go home？
No, it’s not a visit from their mothers, and not a threat to take away their cellphones or pocket money.
It’s high-frequency noise. The UK police recently agreed to use a device (装置) called the Sonic Teenager Deterrent. It sends out a sound that makes teenagers become so impatient and angry that they have to cover their ears tightly and walk away.
The sound is at extreme high-pitch that can be heard by those under 20. The body’s natural ability to detect some wave bands (波段) decreases almost entirely after 20, so few adults can hear the sounds. The black-box device, nicknamed the Mosquito because of its sound, can be fixed to the outside walls of shops, offices and homes. It sounds to youngsters like a crazy insect or a badly played violin. But it causes no physical damage.
A number of police forces and councils have given permission to use the system and want to install it at trouble spots.
Staffordshire Police Inspector Amanda Davies, who has given the device to shopkeepers in the Moorlands area, said," It is controlled by the shopkeepers--if they can see through their window that there is a problem, they turn the device on for a while until the group has run away."
小题1:The device can be used to ____________.| A．threaten teenagers in public | | B．drive away trouble-makers under 20 | | C．help mothers control their teenage children | | D．help the police control shopkeepers |
小题2: From the passage we can know that ___________.| A．young people often suffer from pains in ears | | B．shopkeepers are troubled by noisy insects | | C．high-frequency noise is beyond the listening ability of people over 20 | | D．the police invented a new device to deal with teenagers |
小题3: The purpose of the writer to write the passage is ________.| A．to advertise a new hi-tech device | | B．to tell the reader a piece of news | | C．to sell the device to shopkeepers | | D．to inform the public as the spokesman of the police |
小题4:Who will welcome the device most?| A．Shopkeepers. | B．The police. | C．Young people. | D．The producer. |
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MEGADIM, Israel (AP)-The worst forest fire in Israel"s history on Thursday destroyed one of the country"s few forested areas, killing at least 36 guards on their way to rescue prisoners there, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation (疏散) of thousands. The fire ran through the Carmel forest in Israel"s Galilee, reaching the coastal city of Haifa, jumping from place to place in the forest. The fire broke out around midday and quickly spread and was still burning out of control as midnight approached. Investigators (调查者) supposed that the fire could have been set accidentally, or it might have been a criminal act, but pretty much ruled out (排除) some sort of attack by a Palestinian group. “This is a huge disaster，” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “The government is using all means to control the fire.” He said some countries such as Cyprus, Italy, Russia and Greece agreed to provide backup. Most of the dead were Prison Service guards racing through the fire toward a prison to evacuate the prisoners, most of them Palestinians. A tree fell across the road, blocking their bus. Some guards were burned alive inside, while others died as they tried to escape. Fourteen bodies were found near the burnt bus 10 hours after the fire started. The fire heavily damaged one of Israel"s few large forests, made up of natural growth and planted areas, a favorite place for camping and a home for dozens of species of wildlife. Forestry workers tried to evacuate animals from the fire. The forest recovered slowly from a fire in 1989, but experts said Thursday"s big fire was many times worse.
小题1:Some Prison Service guards died when they tried to ________. | A．control the running prisoners | B．put out the fierce forest fire | | C．get away from the burning bus | D．save the guards trapped in the fire ． |
小题2:According to the investigators, which of the following might be the cause of the fire?| A．Prisoners set the fire purposely. | B．The fire broke out all by itself. | | C．A Palestinian group did it. | D．The fire was started by accident. |
小题3:We learn from the text that ________. | A．all of the dead were Prison Service guards | | B．the forest once suffered a fire in the 1980s | | C．the animals didn"t suffer from the fire | | D．the fire caused 50 deaths altogether ． |
小题4:The text is mainly about ________. | A．the worst forest fire in Israel"s history | | B．the actual cause of the worst ever forest fire | | C．the damage caused by the forest fire | | D．the government"s efforts in controlling the fire |
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