阅读理解。 56yearold becomes 1st woman to swim Atlanti

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阅读理解。                                56yearold becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic
     (AP)－Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand,excited and exhausted as she
touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.Reaching a beach in Trinidad,she became
the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Oceana dream she"d had since the early 1960s,
when a stormy transAtlantic (飞越大西洋) flight got her thinking she could wear a life vest and swim
the rest of the way if needed.
     The 56yearold left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa"s western coast on Jan.12,2009,swimming 19
out of 25 days battling waves of up to 30 feet.The distance from Cape Verde to Trinidad is about 700
miles.Crewmembers are still computing exactly how many miles she swam.
     The original plan was for her to swim to the Bahamasa distance of about 2,100 milesbut inclement
(恶劣的) weather forced her to change her plans and she arrived at Trinidad on Feb.5.She now plans
to swim from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands,ending her voyage at the Bitter End Yacht Club in
late February.
     Her journey comes a decade after French swimmer Benoit Lecomte made the first known solo
transAtlantic swim,covering nearly 4,000 miles from Massachusetts to France in 73 days.No woman
on record has made the crossing.
     Figge wore a red cap and wet suit,with her only goodluck charm (护身符) underneath:an old,red
shirt to guard against chafing (磨痛),signed by friends,relatives and her father,who recently died.The
other cherished (珍惜) possession she kept onboard was a picture of Gertrude Ederle,an American
who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel."We have a few things in common,
"Figge said."She worea red hat and she was of German descent (血统).We both talked to the sea,
and neither one of us wantedto get out."1.When did Jennifer Figge want to swim across the Atlantic Ocean?A.After she reached a beach in Trinidad.
B.After she pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand.
C.After her stormy transAtlantic flight in the early 1960s.
D.After her graduation from a university.2.Jennifer Figge had to change her plans     .A.because she wanted to shorten her voyage
B.because of bad weather conditions
C.because she wanted to end her voyage in late February
D.because she wanted to set a new world record3.When did Benoit Lecomte probably make the first known solo transAtlantic swim?A.In 1998.
B.In 1988.
C.In 1978 .
D.In 1968.4.For what purpose did Jennifer Figge keep a photo of Gertrude Ederle?A.Figge would like to follow her example.
B.She had the same red cap as Figge always wore.
C.Figge also wanted to swim across the English Channel.
D.They were both born in Germany.

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阅读理解。     "A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right," says Mollie Hunter. Born
and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She
firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie"s opinion it is necessary to make   full use of language and   she enjoys  telling a
story, which is what every writer should be doing. "If you aren"t telling a story, you"re a very dead writer indeed," she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer. "I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "
This love goes back to early childhood. I"ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very
good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you"ll be a writer." So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good
teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer."
     This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the
third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie"s ambition (理想)
and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地) brought
thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows(草地) and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with modern houses. "I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had
lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I"ll never go back,"she said. "Never.""When I set one of my books
in Scotland,"she said,"I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or
watching the village blacksmith at work. And that"s important, because children now know so much so
early that romance can"t exist for them, as it did for us."1. In Mollie Hunter"s opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer? A. Being poor in life experience.
B. Being short of writing skills.
C. The weakness of description.
D. The absence of a story.2. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child? A. She didn"t expect to become a writer.
B. She didn"t enjoy writing stories.
C. She didn"t have any particular ambitions.
D. She didn"t respect her teacher"s views.3. In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that modern children are      . A. more intelligent(聪明的)
B. better informed(见多识广的)
C. less eager to learn
D. less interested in reality4. What"s the writer"s purpose in this text? A. To describe Mollie Hunter"s most successful books.
B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter"s books.
C. To introduce Mollie Hunter"s work to a wider audience.
D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter"s existing readers

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     Every summer, hundreds of thousands of students travel to other countries looking for work and
adventure. Most of the opportunities are in   1   work. The pay is usually poor, but most people work
  2   for the thrill of travel. You can pick grapes in France, entertain kids on American summer camps,
and, of course,
there are always   3   in hotels and restaurants.
     But it is not as easy as it used to be to find work. Unless you speak the language of the country well,
there will be very   4   openings. For example, when you arrive to wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris,
the owner will   5   you to speak French. British students only have a language   6   for jobs in the USA
and Australia.
     Not every one   7   the experience. Sarah James was once responsible for forty American children
in Europe. During the   8  , one child lost his passport; four children were lost in Madrid for a whole day;
the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the   9   they made. Sarah says, "It really was
a 24-hour-a-day job since the kids never   10  ! And the pay was awful. It wasn"t worth it."
     The trouble is that   11   expect to have an easy time of it. After all, they see it as a   12  . In practice,
though, they have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual work, and jobs are   13
only when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. But students have few employment   14  .
As soon as the holiday season finishes, companies will get rid of them. And if their employer doesn"t like
them, they"ll be   15  , too.

(     )1. A. seasonal
(     )2. A. hard
(     )3. A. customers
(     )4. A. good
(     )5. A. teach
(     )6. A. program
(     )7. A. has
(     )8. A. trip
(     )9. A. promise
(     )10. A. cried
(     )11. A. children
(     )12. A. job
(     )13. A. countless
(     )14. A. experiences
(     )15. A. dismissed B. mental
B. voluntarily
B. visitors
B. new
B. expect
B. lesson
B. enjoys
B. flight
B. progress
B. studied
B. students
B. lesson
B. available
B. rules
B. chargedC. professional
C. abroad
C. jobs
C. attractive
C. allow
C. advantage
C. forgets
C. discussion
C. complaint
C. slept
C. employers
C. holiday
C. interesting
C. plans
C. fined D. formal
D. continuously
D. parties
D. few
D. forbid
D. exam
D. remembers
D. ceremony
D. noise
D. helped
D. parents
D. shame
D. boring
D. rights
D. punished

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阅读理解。     True to their reputation as leisure-loving gourmets(美食家),the French spend more time
sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world"s wealthy nations,according to a study
published on Monday.
     The average French person sleeps almost nine hours every night,more than an hour longer
than Japanese and Korean,who sleep the least in a survey of 18 members of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Despite their siesta(午睡)habit,Spaniards
rank only third in the poll after Americans,who sleep more than 8.5 hours.
     And while more and more French people grab a bite at fast-food chains these days or,wolf
down a sandwich at their desk,they still spend more than two hour"s a day eating.
     That means their meals are twice as long as those of the average Mexican,who dedicates just
over an hour a day to food,the OECD"s "Society at a Glance" report on work,health and leisure
in Asia,Europe and North and South America found. The Japanese,scrimping (吝啬) on sleep
and burdened with long working hours,still manage to spend close to two hours a day eating and
drinking,placing them third behind New Zealanders.
     Despite the limited amount of time Americans spend eating each day-about an hour and a
quarter-U.S. obesity肥胖) rates are the highest in the 30 members of OECD.
     The Japanese like to spend what remains of their rare free time watching television or listening
to the radio. This takes up 47 percent of leisure time in Japan. Norwegians spend the most time at
leisure,just over a quarter of their day,while at the low end,Mexicans spend just 16 percent of their
time having fun.
     The OECD has 30 members. The survey covers only the countries for which appropriate figures
were available.1. According to the text,which of the following spends the most time at sleeping and eating?A. Norwegians.
B. Americans.
C. The French.
D. Japanese  2. As to eating time,the CORRECT order is______.A. The French > New Zealanders> Japanese> Mexicans
B. The French > The Japanese > New Zealanders > Mexicans
C. Mexicans> The Japanese > New Zealanders > The French
D. New Zealanders > The Japanese >Mexicans> The French 3. In the 30 members of OECD,U.S ranks first at______A. leisure
B. sleeping time
C. eating time
D. obesity-rates4. What can we learn from the text?A. Japanese and Korean sleep the least in a survey of 30 members of OECD.
B. The Japanese spend 47﹪of leisure time watching TV or listening to the radio.
C. Mexicans spend most of their time having fun.
D. Spaniards who sleep more than 8.5 hours,rank only third after Americans.     5. The main purpose of the text is______.        A. to tell us the French is leisure-loving gourmets
B. to show which country spends the least time on sleeping
C. to show a survey about the time of leisure,sleeping,eating in some countries
D. to make a comparison to find out the best living styles of OECD countries

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阅读理解。     This year, about 2,300 teenagers from all over the world will spend about 10 months in US
homes. At the same time about 1,300 American teenagers will go to other countries to learn new
languages and learn the rest of the world.
     Here is a 2-way student exchange in action. Fred,19, spent last year in Germany with George"s
family. In turn, George"s son Mike spent a year in Fred"s home in America.
     Fred, a lively young man, knew little German when he arrived. But after 2 months of studying,
the language became easy for him. School was completely different from what he had expected
and it was much harder. Students rose respectfully when the teacher entered the room. They took
14 subjects instead of 6 that were usually taken in the US.
     Family life, too, was different. The father"s word was the law. All the activities were done with
the family rather than individually. Fred found the food to be too simple at first. He also missed
having a car.
     "Back home, you pick up some friends in a car and go out to have a good time.In Germany,
you walk but you soon learn to like it ."
     At the same time, in America, Mike,a friendly German boy, was also forming his own ideas.
"I suppose I should criticize American schools" he says, "It is far too easy for our level but I have
to say that I like it a lot. In Germany, we do nothing but study. Here we take part in many other
activities. I think that maybe American schools are better in training their citizens. There ought to
be some middle ground between the two."
     1 between American school life and German school life

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阅读理解。     The Beijing government has set out to recruit thousands of university graduates to work as junior
officials in rural areas to both improve rural administration and ease the city"s employment problems.
     The government plans to recruit 3,000 university graduates this year, 1,000 more than last year, to
work as assistants to village heads or Party secretaries in suburban areas.
      People interested in jobs in Beijing"s rural villages and townships can submit applications to the
Beijing Municipal Personnel Bureau or online at www. Bjbys.com from February 1 through March 15.
      "We hope university graduates will seize this opportunity to use their knowledge in rural villages and
to start their careers," Sun Zhenyu, deputy director of Beijing Personnel Bureau, told Xinhua News
Agency.
      The government has promised successful candidates a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan( $ 250) in the
first year, 2,500 yuan ($ 320) the second year and 3,000 yuan ($ 385) the third year, provided their
performance is up to the required standards, Sun said.
      Wang Lina, who graduated from Beijing Union University last year, was one of the first graduates
to find work in the city"s countryside. After majoring in industrial and commercial administration, Wang
served as the assistant to the village head of Ertiaojie Village in suburban Beijings Pinggu District. For
one project, Wang contacted people at the Beijing Academy of Agricultural Sciences and arranged for
the local farmers to receive training in strawberry planting. Her efforts paid off. The village had a plentiful
harvest of organic strawberries earlier this year.
      Nationwide, about 150,000 university graduates found employment in rural areas last year, according
to figures provided by the Ministry of Education.
     The ministry predicts that 4. 95 million students will graduate from universities across the country this
year, 820,000 more than last year. About 1.4 million of them are unlikely to find jobs when they graduate.
     In Beijing, a record 200,000 people are expected to graduate from university this year. Less than half
of them are expected to be offered jobs, according to the personnel bureau.1. The underlined word "recruit "in the first paragraph probably means _________.  A. employ
B. force
C. encourage
D. train2. We can see from the passage that ___________________.   A. once you are hired as a junior official, you can get an endlessly rising salary
B. the government guarantee a relatively high salary for the successful candidates
C. working as junior officials is easy but very meaningful
D. the competition for the job as junior officials is very fierce3. From the story of Wang Lina we can learn that _________.   A. the sooner you go to the countryside, the sooner you will be successful.
B. local farmers can get big harvests if they learn more knowledge.
C. university graduates can also realize their value in rural areas.
D. Wang had great difficulty in helping villagers planting organic strawberries.4. The last two paragraphs aim to tell us that ________.   A. more and more graduates will work as junior officials
B. the universities should not have so many students
C. there are more and more graduates in recent years
D. it is not easy for graduates to find jobs nowadays5. Which of the following can be the best title for this passage? A. Go to the Countryside
B. A good Job Choice for University Graduates
C. What Is the Best Career?
D. Difficulty for University Graduates

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