【期末高分题集】[北京语言大学]《阅读(Ⅱ)》考核必备10

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24154–《阅读(Ⅱ)》2022年北京语言大学期末复习题集

单选题：
（1）In 1989,Melissa started Kids F.A.C.E.as an after-school club at her elementary school.The six-member group met each Monday to write letters and plan cleanup activities."We never thought it was anything more than a group of kids coming together so they could talk about the environment,"says Trish Poe,her mother.But then a letter from Milissa to the "Today" show got her club on television in 1990.When other kids heard about the club,they wrote asking how they could get involed.So Melissa,with the help of her mother,who today manages the Kids F.A.C.E.office as executive director,developed a membership book that instructed kids on environmental projects and how to start a club of their own."I felt like I had to write them all back at once because I didn't like what the president did to me.Because I didn't like being ignored…I didn't want the kids to have the same feeling,"says Melissa.Requests for information came from all over the nation.At first,Melissa's parents paid the postage and supply bills for the club,but soon expenses became too high.So the club found a sponsor,War-Mart Inc.,which began underwriting the bimonthly newsletter,Kids F.A.C.E.illustrated,which currently provides environmental updates,suggestions,and ideas to more than 2 million people world wide. 问题：Melissa mentioned the president because ( )
A.the latter wrote to her to support her work
B.she wrote to the latter but got no reply from him
C.she wanted the kids to know her experience
D.she wanted the kids to write to him
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（2）Although American civilization took over and replaced the frontier almost a century ago,the heritage of the frontier is still very much alive in the U.S.today.The idea of the frontier still stirs the emotions and imaginations of the American people.Americans continue to be fascinated by the frontier because it has been a particularly important force in shaping their national values.The frontier experience began when the first colonists settled on the east coast of the continent in the 1600s.It ended about 1890 when the last western lands were settled.The American frontier consisted of the relatively unsettled regions of the country.Here,both land and life were more rugged and primitive than in the more settled eastern part.As one frontier area was settled,people began moving farther west into the next unsettled area.By settling one frontier area after another,Americans moved across an entire continent,2,700 miles wide. 问题：Which of the following is not true?
A.the influence of the frontier has died out in modern America
B.American civilization substituted the frontier long ago
C.Americans are still fascinated by the frontier experience
D.the frontier experience lasted about 3 centuries
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（3）My father was 17 when he left the farm in Cameron,N.C., and set off for Baltimore to apply for a job at the Martin Aircraft Company. When asked what he wanted to do, he said,"Everything." He explained that his goal was to learn every job in the factory. He＇d like to go to a department and find out what was done there. When the supervisor determined his work was as good as anyone else＇s, he＇d want to go to a different department and start over. The personnel people agreed to this unusual request, and by the time H.T.Morris was 20, he＇d made his way through the huge factory and was working in experimental design for a fantastic salary. Whenever he went to a new department, he looked for the guys who had been around forever. These were the people novices usually avoided, afraid that next to them they＇d look like the beginners they were. My father asked them every question he could think of. They liked this inquisitive young man and showed him shortcuts they had developed that no one else had ever asked about. These sages became his mentors. Whatever your goals, plan to network with those who know more than you. Model your efforts on theirs, adjusting and improving as you go. 问题：It took the author＇s father about ( ) years to be able to do every job in the big factory.
A.two
B.three
C.five
D.six
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（4）Copper(铜)was the first metal that man learned to make.In some mountainous lands there were rocks streaked with green minerals.One day some rocks were accidentally heated by a roaring fire.When the fire burned low,little beads of copper were seen on the rock wall.After that,men heated the rock deliberately to see whether more copper would appear.They soon found a good way to make copper.They would build a trench on a hillside and fill it with charcoal and copper-bearing rock.They covered this furnace with flat stones.They started a wood fire to heat the charcoal and the hot charcoal released copper from the rock.A hot red pool of melted metal formed at the mouth of the trench.When it was cool,the solid metal could be lifted out and cut and pounded into shapes. 问题：Copper is found in rocks in（ ）
A.large pieces
B.lumps
C.small beads
D.streaks
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（5）In order to deceive even the (shrewd)German Secret Field Police who sometimes headed unwelcome search parties,the candle was partially burned.
A.stupid
B.searching
C.cruel
D.cunning
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（6）Dorothy worked alongside him,in the beginning,until he proved himself;then gradually she (relinquished) more of the work to him and concentrated on her garden and flowers,and the housework
A.gave up
B.offered
C.took
D.reconsidered
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（7）The National Sleep Foundation site also contains useful information on helping you to knit up "the ravell'd sleeve of care,"as Shakespeare once (aptly) described a good night's sleep.
A.clearly
B.rightly
C.keenly
D.humorously
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（8）The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. 问题：The 8th day of the last lunar month was remarkable because that day Sakyamuni( )
A.ate a meal given by a shepherdess
B.found the meal very delicious
C.made a deep meditation
D.obtained the final enlightenment
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（9）I (groped) my way to a door,opened it,and instantly began to cough.
A.walked
B.felt
C.jumped
D.tramped
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（10）"I'm (redundant),"Dorothy thought,then realized she was speaking out loud.
A.not worried
B.not careful
C.not happy
D.not needed
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（11）"I can't take all the (bending) any longer,"she said.
A.standing
B.working
C.stooping
D.sitting
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（12）Studies have shown that cognitive skills and physical performance are (impaired) by sleep debt,but mood is affected more.
A.strengthened
B.improved
C.enhanced
D.weakened
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（13）Surely a (telltale hole )in the melted wax would expose the end of the metal capsule concealed in the base of the candle.
A.a hole that revealed the secret
B.a hoel that was able to tell a story
C.a hole that was able to be used in a tale
D.a hoel that appeared in a tale
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（14）Into the humble home of Armand Bernaud,in the Grande Rue,Dieppe,(suspense)and the shadow of death were invited.
A.suspicion
B.uncertainty
C.hardships
D.expectation
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（15）He had carried messages and acted as (lookout).
A.person sent to attract enemy's attention
B.person assighed to protect the message
C.person assigned to be on the watch
D.person sent to set up sighposts
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（16）From there, 3 days of magnificent (trekking) through great scenery had brought us to the village of Kumjung.
A.travelling
B.sightseeing
C.palying
D.driving
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（17）Our party of 4 old-timers, of whom I, at 71,was the oldest,had (convened) a week earlier in Kathmandu,the capital,and had met our journey leader Nancy Jo there.
A.gathered
B.stayed
C.walked
D.rested
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（18）Curiosity (gripped) me.
A.surprised
B.disappointed
C.got rid of
D.took hold of
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（19）At the 1908 Olympics in London the Marathon race was held on a very hot day.The race started at Windsor Castle,one of the homes of the Royal Family,so that the Royal children could see the runners leave.The race was planned to continue for 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 metres),now the accepted distance for this race,into Central London.Because of the great heat,however,many runners had to give up before they could finish the race.Towards the end,the large crowd waited with great excitement for the South African,Charles Hefferon,to come into the stadium first.They were surprised,however,when the 1st man to appear was the small Italian,Pietri Dorando.Dorando was by now extremely tired and weak and,as he was running round the stadium towards the finishing line,he fell to the groud,unable to continue.Doctors rushed to help him and he soon got to his feet and continued,with loud cheers from the crowd.As he came close to the line he had to be helped again, this time by a journalist,but finally he finished the race.He was not,of course,allowed to receive the gold because he had had help during the race.Afterwards, Dorando argued unsuccessfully that he had not asked for this help.But the medal was given to an American,Hayes,who had finished second.However, Dorando later received a special gold cup from Queen Alexandra for his courage. 问题：a good title for the passage is ( )
A.Dorando,hero of the Olympics
B.Dorando,the fastest runner
C.A Marathon race held on a hot day
D.who was the 1st runner?
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（20）Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：More than 2 billion quarts of ice cream have been eaten ( )
A.by Americans in one year
B.all over the world in one year
C.since the time of Nero
D.since America was discovered
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（21）In 1989,Melissa started Kids F.A.C.E.as an after-school club at her elementary school.The six-member group met each Monday to write letters and plan cleanup activities."We never thought it was anything more than a group of kids coming together so they could talk about the environment,"says Trish Poe,her mother.But then a letter from Milissa to the "Today" show got her club on television in 1990.When other kids heard about the club,they wrote asking how they could get involed.So Melissa,with the help of her mother,who today manages the Kids F.A.C.E.office as executive director,developed a membership book that instructed kids on environmental projects and how to start a club of their own."I felt like I had to write them all back at once because I didn't like what the president did to me.Because I didn't like being ignored…I didn't want the kids to have the same feeling,"says Melissa.Requests for information came from all over the nation.At first,Melissa's parents paid the postage and supply bills for the club,but soon expenses became too high.So the club found a sponsor,War-Mart Inc.,which began underwriting the bimonthly newsletter,Kids F.A.C.E.illustrated,which currently provides environmental updates,suggestions,and ideas to more than 2 million people world wide. 问题：When Melissa first organized Kids F.A.C.E.,she meant to ( )
A.have a writing club for the kids
B.ask the kids to clean the environment
C.give kids a chance to talk about the environment
D.have a national club
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（22）Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀）,the earth's shadow falls on the moon.Then the moon's temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：Astronomers have found that the moon's surface is（ ）
A.always hotter than boiling water
B.either very hot or very cold
C.usually many degrees below zero
D.about the same as that of the earth
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（23）Everyone who eats in Carman's Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant's discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn't meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:"Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break."Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn't have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman's.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn't just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel's pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again."It was incredible,"she says."There's a sense about Carman that is just can-do,"says regular Kevin Vaughan."It's infectious." 问题: How many weeks did it take to reopen the restaurant ?
A.2 weeks
B.3 weeks
C.2 months
D.3 months
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（24）No one thought of anything even a little bit like the zipper until Whitecomb L.Judson came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and buckles. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, especially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladies squeezed themselves into long corsets. Whitecomb L.Judson＇s slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a street railway system and motor-cars. Judson invented the first zipper(called, at the time, a Clasp Locker or Unlocker)in 1891. This ingenious little device looks so simple, and the principle behind it is simple: one row of hooks and eyes slotting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took 22 years, many improvements and another inventor to make the zipper really practical. 问题：The first zipper was invented in ( )
A.the end of the 18th century
B.the beginning of the 19th century
C.the end of the 19th century
D.the beginning of the 20th century
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（25）George Ashmore Fitch was born in Soochow,China in 1883,the son of Presbyterian missionaries George F.and Mary McLllan Fitch.After receiving his B.A.from Wooster College in 1906,Fitch attended Union Theological Seminary in New York.He was made a priest in 1909 and returned to work in Shanghai.When the Nanking Massacre occurred,Fitch was one of the witnesses of the crime.He quickly became active in assisting the Internatinal Committen for the Nanking Safety Zone.Fitch's diary of events of Nanking was carried to Shanghai by the first person able to leave the Nanking after its occupation by the Japanese on December 13,1937.As Fitch has written,"My story created a sensation in Shanghai,for it was the first news of what had happened in the capital since its evacuation,and it was copied and mimeographed and widely distributed there."Fitch's Nanking diary has been published previously but the version of his diary available in the Yale collection differs slightly from the well-publicized version,so excerpts from it have been included in this volume.In 1938 Fitch traveled throughout the United States giving talks about the Nanking Massacre and showing films to document it.He returned to work first in China and then in Korea and China's Taiwan until his retirement in 1961. 问题：Which of the following is true?
A.Fitch's Nanking diary had never been published before the Yale collection
B.the version of his diary is the Yale collection is not different from other versions
C.the version of Fitch's diary in the Yale edition is slightly different from the other version#
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（26）The inventor of spectacles probably lived in the town of Paris, Italy, around 1286, and was almost certainly a craftsman working in glass. But nobody knows his name. We only know this much about him because Friar Giordane preached a sermon one Wednesday morning in February 1306 at a church in Florence. It＇s not yet 20 years since there was found the art of making eye-glasses which make for good vision, said the Friar.One of the best arts and most necessary that the world has. So short a time is it since there was invented a new art that never existed. I have seen the man who first invented and created it, and I have talked to him. We know what Friar Giordane said because admirers copied his sermons down as he gave them. The inventor of spectacles apparently kept the method of making them to himself. Perhaps he thought this was the best way of getting money from his invention. But the idea soon got around. As early as 1300, craftsmen in Venice,the centre of Europe＇s glass industry, were making the new disks for the eyes.Spectacles at first were only shaped for far-sighted people. Concave lenses, for short-sighted people, were not developed until the late 15th century. Spectacles allowed people to go on reading and studying long after bad eyesight would normally have forced them to give up.They were like a new pair of eyes. The inventor of such a valuable thing should be honored, everyone thought. But for centuries no one had any idea who the inventor really was. So all kinds of candidates were put forward: Dutch, English, German, Italians from rival cities. A fake memorial was erected last century in a church in Florence to honor a man as the true inventor of spectacles-but he never even existed. 问题：Which of the following is true?
A.The inventor made known his method of making spectacles
B.Florence was the center of Europe＇s glass industry in the 14th century
C.In the 14th century short-sighted people could read books with the help of spectacles
D.early craftsmen used lenses for far-sighted people
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（27）Everyone who eats in Carman's Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant's discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn't meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:"Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break."Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn't have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman's.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn't just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel's pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again."It was incredible,"she says."There's a sense about Carman that is just can-do,"says regular Kevin Vaughan."It's infectious." 问题：Carman Luntzel was all of the following except ( )
A.a cook
B.a discussion leader
C.a matchmaker
D.an insurance agent
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（28）In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers' overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the "working" day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题： According to the passage,the mother married ( )
A.as she was expected to
B.as she was forced to
C.against her own will
D.according to her own will
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（29）While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me."I'm baffled,"he said."A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’"His teacher can't understand it.Neither can I."I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test."What is Mars?"I asked.Most children his age say,"A chocolate bar."He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:"Can't you come up with something more difficult?"I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was "off the map"as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark's principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark's parents what they thought of him."He can be a pain in the neck,"his mother said."He asks such impossible questions,"she smiled."But we love him dearly."This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：The boy's parents looked upon their son as ( )
A.a real genius
B.a normal boy
C.a mischievous boy
D.a boy that needs love
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（30）Two basic models of parental influence emerge from all this competition and variety,however.One, loosely based on Freudian ideas,has presented an image of the vulnerable child:children are sensitive beings,easily damaged not only by traumatic events and emotional stress,but also by overdoses of affection.The 2nd model is that of the behaviorists,whose intellectual ancestors,the empiricist philosophers,described the child's mind as a tabula rasa,or blank slate.The behaviorist model of child-rearing is based on the view that the child is malleable,and parents are therefore cast in the role of Pygmalions who can shape their children however they wish."Give me a dozen healthy infants,well-formed,and my own specified world to bring them up in,"wrote J.B.Watson,the father of modern behaviorism,"and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be any type of specialist I might-doctor,lawyer,artist,merchant,chief, and yes,even beggar man and thief!"The image of the vulnerable child calls for gentle parents who are sensitive to their child's inner-most thoughts and feelings in order to protect him from trauma.The image of the malleable child requires stem parents who coolly follow the dictates of their own explicit training procedures:only the early eradication of bad habits in eating,sleeping,crying,can fend off permanent maladjustments. 问题： According to the behaviorist model of child-rearing,parents ( )
A.shouldn't give overdoses of affection
B.should know that children are sensitive
C.can train their children to be any type of people they like
D.should be gentle to their children
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（31）The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic" two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed. 问题：Before 1924,all the winter sports competitions were held in ( )
A.Asia
B.Africa
C.Latin America
D.Europe
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（32）Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park,Illinois,a prosperous suburb of Chicago.His father,a physician,was an enthusiastic hunter and fisheman who taught his son to handle a rod and a gun.Hemingway's respect for these skills and his love of the open air run through his writing.He has tired to capture the point of view,actions,feelings,and speech of men who excel in the activities he admires.In school Hemingway was a good student,with a wide range of interests beyond the classroom.He was known as a boxer,a football player,a member of the swimming team,and manager of the track team.For 3 years he played in the school orchestra.But much of his activity was connected with words,which were to be his lifelong preoccupation.First as reporter,then as editor,he gained experience on the school paper,to which he contributed articles and stories.When Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917,World War I was still being fought.After a few months as a reporter on the Kansas City Star,he sailed for Europe in May,1918,as a volunteer ambulance driver and later transferred to the Italian infantry.Two weeks before his 19th birthday a leg wound brought him close to death.War and death have been recurrent themes in Hemingway's writing.Of war he has said," I thought about Tolstoi and about what a great advantage an experience of war was to a writer.It was one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write truly of … " 问题：a good title for the passage is ( )
A.Hemingway's Interest in Writing
B.The Subjects for Hemingway's Writing
C.The Life of Young Hemingway
D.Hemingway's Understanding of War
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（33）George Ashmore Fitch was born in Soochow,China in 1883,the son of Presbyterian missionaries George F.and Mary McLllan Fitch.After receiving his B.A.from Wooster College in 1906,Fitch attended Union Theological Seminary in New York.He was made a priest in 1909 and returned to work in Shanghai.When the Nanking Massacre occurred,Fitch was one of the witnesses of the crime.He quickly became active in assisting the Internatinal Committen for the Nanking Safety Zone.Fitch's diary of events of Nanking was carried to Shanghai by the first person able to leave the Nanking after its occupation by the Japanese on December 13,1937.As Fitch has written,My story created a sensation in Shanghai,for it was the first news of what had happened in the capital since its evacuation,and it was copied and mimeographed and widely distributed there.Fitch's Nanking diary has been published previously but the version of his diary available in the Yale collection differs slightly from the well-publicized version,so excerpts from it have been included in this volume.In 1938 Fitch traveled throughout the United States giving talks about the Nanking Massacre and showing films to document it.He returned to work first in China and then in Korea and China's Taiwan until his retirement in 1961. 问题：Fitch's story created a sensation in Shanghai because ( )
A.it was about how he managed to leave Nanking after Japanese occupation
B.it mainly showed how he actively helped the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone
C.it was the first news of what had happened in Nanking after the Japanese occupation
D.itwas copied and mimeographed and widely distributed t.
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（34）Everyone who eats in Carman's Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant's discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn't meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:"Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break."Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn't have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman's.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn't just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel's pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again."It was incredible,"she says."There's a sense about Carman that is just can-do,"says regular Kevin Vaughan."It's infectious." 问题：What happened last September?
A.There was a fire which nearly destroyed the restaurant
B.Luntzel lost a coffeepot
C.An insurance company offered to help
D.Carman could always turn bad news into good news
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（35）Two basic models of parental influence emerge from all this competition and variety,however.One, loosely based on Freudian ideas,has presented an image of the vulnerable child:children are sensitive beings,easily damaged not only by traumatic events and emotional stress,but also by overdoses of affection.The 2nd model is that of the behaviorists,whose intellectual ancestors,the empiricist philosophers,described the child's mind as a tabula rasa,or blank slate.The behaviorist model of child-rearing is based on the view that the child is malleable,and parents are therefore cast in the role of Pygmalions who can shape their children however they wish."Give me a dozen healthy infants,well-formed,and my own specified world to bring them up in,"wrote J.B.Watson,the father of modern behaviorism,"and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be any type of specialist I might-doctor,lawyer,artist,merchant,chief, and yes,even beggar man and thief!"The image of the vulnerable child calls for gentle parents who are sensitive to their child's inner-most thoughts and feelings in order to protect him from trauma.The image of the malleable child requires stem parents who coolly follow the dictates of their own explicit training procedures:only the early eradication of bad habits in eating,sleeping,crying,can fend off permanent maladjustments. 问题：According to the Freudian model of parental influence,a child is ( )
A.tough
B.easily hurt
C.well-behaved
D.healthy
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（36）My father was 17 when he left the farm in Cameron,N.C., and set off for Baltimore to apply for a job at the Martin Aircraft Company. When asked what he wanted to do, he said,"Everything." He explained that his goal was to learn every job in the factory. He＇d like to go to a department and find out what was done there. When the supervisor determined his work was as good as anyone else＇s, he＇d want to go to a different department and start over. The personnel people agreed to this unusual request, and by the time H.T.Morris was 20, he＇d made his way through the huge factory and was working in experimental design for a fantastic salary. Whenever he went to a new department, he looked for the guys who had been around forever. These were the people novices usually avoided, afraid that next to them they＇d look like the beginners they were. My father asked them every question he could think of. They liked this inquisitive young man and showed him shortcuts they had developed that no one else had ever asked about. These sages became his mentors. Whatever your goals, plan to network with those who know more than you. Model your efforts on theirs, adjusting and improving as you go. 问题： The request made by the author＇s father was regarded by the personnel department as（ ）.
A.nature
B.strange
C.unacceptable
D.over-reaching
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（37）Last December 22 a pickup truck slid on an icy bridge over the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth,and slammed into the guardrail,where workers were removing scaffolding from a paving project.The impact threw Cornell Taylor,43,more than 70 feet into the frigid water below.Nearby,Joseph G.Brisson,36,was in the wheelhouse of his tugboat.He and his crew were talking about the upcoming holidays when suddenly their chatter was interrupted by an urgent voice:"Man down!"Brisson saw Taylor hit the water."He went down a few times and all I saw was a hand."Realizing there was no time to wait for rescue crews,Brisson took off his shoes and handed his wallet to a co-worker,then jumped feet-first into the 40-degree water.Swimming to Taylor,Brisson helped the disoriented man get his face above water."I told him I was not going to let him go,that if he went,I was going with him."The river current was freezing."I couldn't feel my legs,arms or hands,"Brisson said.He locked his legs around Taylor's waist and kept the injured man float and talking."I told him we were going to be all right,that we were both going to enjoy Christmas."Finally, after about 30 minutes in the water,the men were pulled to safety.Calling himself "a normal Joe,"Brisson says,"I have a family.I thought about that.But I thought about how life is very important,I couldn't let anything happen to him." 问题：By calling himself a normal Joe,Brisson means that ( )
A.he is willing to sacrifice himself for others
B.he is a family man
C.he is an ordinary man
D.he knows the value of life
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（38）The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. 问题：The Laba Festival is believed by many to be related to ( )
A.Confucianism
B.Buddhism
C.Taoism
D.Christianity
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（39）Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：Marco Polo is known as ( )
A.a Roman emperor
B.the inventor of ice cream
C.a royal cook
D.a traveler to China
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（40）The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic" two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed. 问题: Coubertin didn't want to have a separate winter Olympics because ( )
A.the winter games could only be held in the Scandinavian way
B.the winter games could only be held in the Scandinavian countries
C.there had been more trouble in the winter games
D.he was worried about the future of the Olympic movement
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（41）Last December 22 a pickup truck slid on an icy bridge over the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth,and slammed into the guardrail,where workers were removing scaffolding from a paving project.The impact threw Cornell Taylor,43,more than 70 feet into the frigid water below.Nearby,Joseph G.Brisson,36,was in the wheelhouse of his tugboat.He and his crew were talking about the upcoming holidays when suddenly their chatter was interrupted by an urgent voice:"Man down!"Brisson saw Taylor hit the water."He went down a few times and all I saw was a hand."Realizing there was no time to wait for rescue crews,Brisson took off his shoes and handed his wallet to a co-worker,then jumped feet-first into the 40-degree water.Swimming to Taylor,Brisson helped the disoriented man get his face above water."I told him I was not going to let him go,that if he went,I was going with him."The river current was freezing."I couldn't feel my legs,arms or hands,"Brisson said.He locked his legs around Taylor's waist and kept the injured man float and talking."I told him we were going to be all right,that we were both going to enjoy Christmas."Finally, after about 30 minutes in the water,the men were pulled to safety.Calling himself "a normal Joe,"Brisson says,"I have a family.I thought about that.But I thought about how life is very important,I couldn't let anything happen to him." 问题：what did Brisson say to the injured man in the water?
A.he told the latter to hold on
B.he told the latter they probably were both going to die
C.he told the latter to keep his face above water
D.he told the latter that Christmas was coming
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（42）While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me."I'm baffled,"he said."A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’"His teacher can't understand it.Neither can I."I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test."What is Mars?"I asked.Most children his age say,"A chocolate bar."He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:"Can't you come up with something more difficult?"I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was "off the map"as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark's principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark's parents what they thought of him."He can be a pain in the neck,"his mother said."He asks such impossible questions,"she smiled."But we love him dearly."This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：The author and the principal kept the boy in class with kids of his own age because ( )
A.they didn't intend to pamper the talented boy
B.they thought the boy should learn how to put up with less smart kids
C.they tired to set him up as a model for the class
D.they wanted the boy to be more sociable
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（43）In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers' overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the "working" day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题：It seems to the narrator that it would be really good if ( )
A.the mother worked from sunup till night
B.the mother worked side by side with her husband
C.the mother made all things that the family needed
D.the mother could have some time to think undisturbed
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（44）Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：The Roman emperor Nero hired men to ( )
A.make ice cream for him
B.bring ice cream from China
C.guard the secret of ice cream
D.bring ice to cool his drinks
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（45）The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic" two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed. 问题: the above passage mainly discusses ( )
A.the birth of the winter Olympics
B.the problems of the Winter Olympics
C.the history of the Winter Olympics
D.the necessity for a separate Winter Olympics
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（46）Although American civilization took over and replaced the frontier almost a century ago,the heritage of the frontier is still very much alive in the U.S.today.The idea of the frontier still stirs the emotions and imaginations of the American people.Americans continue to be fascinated by the frontier because it has been a particularly important force in shaping their national values.The frontier experience began when the first colonists settled on the east coast of the continent in the 1600s.It ended about 1890 when the last western lands were settled.The American frontier consisted of the relatively unsettled regions of the country.Here,both land and life were more rugged and primitive than in the more settled eastern part.As one frontier area was settled,people began moving farther west into the next unsettled area.By settling one frontier area after another,Americans moved across an entire continent,2,700 miles wide. 问题：The frontier continues to attract Americans because ( )
A.the movement helped to shape American values
B.American people are bored with the clamorous city life
C.American people are emotional and full of imagination
D.the movement took place a century ago
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（47）The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic" two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed. 问题: The crisis over the qualifications for competitions taking part in the Winter Games ended because ( )
A.the IOC made a final decision
B.the IOC and the International Ski Federation reached an agreement
C.war broke out and stopped the Games
D.the two organizations could not find a solution
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（48）Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀）,the earth's shadow falls on the moon.Then the moon's temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：During an eclipse, the moon is ( )
A.turned away from the sun
B.in the shadow of the sun
C.in the shadow of the earth
D.in direct sunlight
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（49）They have been on good （ ）with each other since they met.
A.relations
B.friendship
C.term
D.terms
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（50）The girl wears an original skirt today. Her best friend wears the same style skirt, (as well).
A.also
B.too
C.either
D.as hers
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（51）When you meet your teachers you (are supposed to) say “hi” to them.
A.should
B.have to
C.are able to
D.are hoped to
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（52）Although geographically separated from the other 48 states, Alaska and Hawaii are both richly productive and add (considerable) wealth to the nation.
A.important
B.comfortable
C.a lot of
D.a certain amount of
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（53）Miles taught me that the hope my father had in (abundance) did not die with him.
A.scarcity
B.dreams
C.offspring
D.profusion
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（54）The man is doing something simple (over and over again), but he doesn’t feel bored.
A.all the time
B.time and time again
C.all the same
D.all day and all night
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（55）You should have put the milk into the ice box, I expect it（ ）undrinkable.
A.became
B.had become
C.has become
D.becomes
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（56）The earnings of women are well below that of men（ ）educational differences that are diminishing between the two sexes.
A.although
B.though
C.despite of
D.in spite of
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（57）It is a(n)（ ）attitude to take towards life.
A.absurd
B.silly
C.stupid
D.authentic
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（58）The（ ）crown jewels are kept in the Tower of London.
A.valued
B.valueless
C.invaluable
D.usable
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（59）Less commonly, they make mistakes with tragic (consequences).
A.sequence
B.concern
C.influences
D.results
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（60）She always put her medication on the top shelf lest children（ ）it by mistake.
A.took
B.should take
C.had taken
D.would take
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（61）The police carried out a(n) （ ）search for the missing boy.
A.complete
B.entire
C.thorough
D.whole
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（62）Though（ ）rich, she was better off than at any other period in her life.
A.by means of
B.within her means
C.by all means
D.by no means
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（63）The actress wanted a hat to（ ）her dress.
A.go by
B.go through
C.go out
D.go with
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（64）Other fathers are watching their sons cope with the (demons) of today.
A.diseases
B.difficulties
C.poverty
D.evils
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（65）We will have (lots of) robots to help us in the future.
A.a few
B.a little
C.many
D.much
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（66）Then the girl came to the stairs, helped me to my feet, guided me to the outhouse, and afterwards (escorted) me back to my bunk.
A.carried
B.accompanied
C.saw
D.helped
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（67）If you have any problems during your study here, please do not（ ） to call me for help.
A.hesitate
B.despair
C.urge
D.request
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（68）In any case, the (lucid) impressions of childhood and lie in the memory.
A.bright
B.clear
C.clean
D.transparent
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（69）During these activities they can (temporarily) "be" the unshy person.
A.for good
B.permanently
C.simultaneously
D.for a short time
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（70）The message is clear: Just as tea and banana can’t go together, （ ） should the son of a low class family expect to marry the daughter of a nobleman.
A.either
B.not
C.neither
D.nor
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（71）The excited girl quickly （ ）down.
A.calmed
B.come
C.run
D.went
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（72）He likes （ ） to people, but nobody obeys him.
A.ordering
B.obeying
C.dictating
D.directions
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（73）Be sure to write to us, （ ）?
A.will you
B.aren’t you
C.can you
D.mustn’t you
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（74）And what a pity it was to (reconvert) the study, with all its space for Tim＇s farm records.
A.change again
B.remove completely
C.give up immediately
D.rebuild at once
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（75）If you hook something truly big, we can (come to your aid).
A.help
B.need
C.boat
D.hand
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（76）He designed an experiment in order to （ ） his theory.
A.demonstrate
B.proof
C.defense
D.grasp
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（77）She （ ） her medicine with the help of some water mixed with sugar.
A.bite
B.swallowed
C.chewed
D.nibbled
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（78）I wish he'd stop telling all these （ ） jokes to my mother. I can't imagine how he could open his mouth.
A.popular
B.courteous
C.vulgar
D.liberal
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（79）At first, she was almost alarmingly (apathetic) and seemed to be totally uninterested in my visit.
A.active
B.indifferent
C.emotional
D.enthusiastic
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（80）"I don't want the Government (butting in)," he said stubbornly.
A.knowing about it
B.interfering
C.paying me
D.questioning me
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（81）Frankly speaking, your article is very good except for some （ ） mistakes in grammar.
A.trivial
B.obscure
C.rare
D.glaring
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（82）Liu Cheng-feng noted in one report that the last four digits of the phone number of the Canton Hotel are 8168, a (homophone) for "success and yet more success."
A.word pronounced like another word but with a different meaning or spelling
B.word used in place of another word in a home telephone book
C.word that has a different pronunciation from another word but has the same meaning
D.word that carries an auspicious meaning
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（83）But in Taiwan four is not especially well (looked upon).
A.looked after
B.regarded
C.taken care of
D.used
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（84）When I got out of the car and walked about among them, （ ）one old man who shook his head disapprovingly, they all began to cheer.
A.see that
B.except that
C.provided that
D.except for
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阅读理解：
（1）Measuring a country's health by the average life expectancy of its citizens is a bit like judging the performance of the London Underground merely by the number of passengers it carries: It takes no account of how people find the experience as they go along. That is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has come up with a new measure of population health, called disability-adjusted life expectancy (DALE). Rather than estimating only how long a child can expect to live, Christopher Murray and his colleagues at the WHO have tried to calculate how much of the child's life will be spent in good health.
To do this, they have conducted random surveys around the world to see how disabling such conditions as blindness or chest pain are considered to be. These "severity weightings", which vary surprisingly little from country to country, are combined with standard epidemiological measures of years of ill health due to particular ailments and deducted from total life expectancy to yield the DALE. Worldwide, the average healthy life expectancy of babies born in 1999 is 7.5 years less than their total life expectancy.
Japan, Australia, France and Sweden all have DALES of more than 73 years. Indeed, the Japanese are not only the world's longest-lived people, with an average life expectancy of 81 years, but, according to this new measure, they are the healthiest, with only 6.5 years of their projected lifespan spent in ill health. Low rates of heart disease are credited as one explanation of Japan's strong showing. But the WHO warns that this may change as a consequence of fattier diets in recent years and greater cigarette consumption since the Second World War.
At the other extreme, the countries with the worst DALES are in sub-Saharan Africa. The healthy life expectancy for babies in Sierra Leone, Niger and Malawi is under 30 years. AIDS, along with malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, is ensuring that life remains nasty, brutish and short.
Poverty is powerful ally of illness; but greater wealth does not necessarily buy better health. America is famously the world's biggest spender on health care, but with a DALE of 70 years, it still falls behind Japan, which forks out far less.
Dr. Murray admits that DALE is a rough-and-ready benchmark. Standard mortality statistics are hard to gather in some poor countries, let alone more sophisticated, culturally-sensitive assessments of illness severity. The WHO is busy working on both fronts to make DALE more reliable. If only the same could be said for the Underground.
第1小题
The old measure of population health __________________.
第2小题
DALE is __________________.
第3小题
Which of the following statements is true?
第4小题
According to this passage, __________________.
第5小题
In Dr. Murray's view, DALE __________________.

选项：
A.is only useful in judging the performance of the London Underground
选项：
B.can exactly estimate a child's life expectancy
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C.cannot judge the citizens' performance in their experience
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D.can be applied in every country
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（2）With hope of finding more survivors of Turkey’s devastating earthquake now all but gone, the Turkish authorities are turning their attention to caring for those who have survived.
A full-scale relief effort in the area hit by the earthquake is finally beginning after days of confusion. Turkish and foreign volunteers have been joined by soldiers and the police, and heavy equipment has been moved to almost every victimized town.
Soldiers were visible on the streets of many devastated towns, collecting refuse, keeping spectators away from dangerous sites, spraying disinfectants and spreading lime along gutters. Military trucks and jeeps moved through streets alongside power shovels, bulldozers and other heavy equipment sent by nearby cities and by private companies.
Divers scoured the waters of the Sea of Marmara and reported that they had found more than 150 bodies. Most had apparently lived in homes facing the sea, which lies at the center of the earthquake zone.
Minister of Housing estimated that 60 000 buildings had been either destroyed or seriously damaged in the quake. Within a few days, many of the homeless would be moved out of the fields and tents where they were now living. Some were to be given prefabricated huts, and others would have rooms in unused hotels. Temporary housing compounds would be set up, taking into account the desire of the homeless citizens to remain close to the areas where they lived.
By one count, 42 countries and 38 international organizations have sent aid to Turkey. More than 3 000 American sailors and marines aboard three warships laden with medical supplies were expected to arrive early.
The World Bank pledged to send $200 million for emergency housing construction. The Government was considering issuing special “earth bonds” to raise more money.
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The Turkish authorities are turning their attention to __________.
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According to Minister of Housing, __________ buildings had been seriously damaged.
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For the homeless survivors, the government decided to do the following except __________.
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How many countries have sent aid to Turkey?
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The main idea of the passage is that __________.

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A.rescuing more survivors from the quake
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B.taking care of those who have survived
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C.improving the relationship with its neighboring countries
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D.getting donations from the world
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（3）The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue (the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival. It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season. After the Laba Festival, people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year. The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel (laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni, the Buddha. He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment. After days of traveling without rest, he collapsed near a river in northern India. He was revived by a wandering shepherdess, who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal, glutinous rice, dates, chestnuts and wild fruit. After consuming this repast, Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation, where he finally attained enlightenment. The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month. The meal was the original laba gruel.
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At the Laba Fesival, people ( ).
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The Laba Festival is believed by many to be related to ( ).
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Sakyamuni left his home and searched for ( ).
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Sakyamuni ate a meal which was made of all the following except ( ).
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The 8th day of the last lunar month was remarkable because that day Sakyamuni ( ).

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A.worship all the deities
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B.begin preparations for the Lunar New Year
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C.cook a variety of food to mark the occasion
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D.eat a special gruel together
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（4）The main idea of these business school academics is appealing. In a world where companies must adapt to new technologies and source of competition, it is much harder than it used to be to offer good employees job security and an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder. Yet it is also more necessary than ever for employees to invest in better skills and sparkle with bright ideas. How can firms get the most out of people if they can no longer offer them protection and promotion?
Many bosses would love to have an answer. Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School and Christopher Bartlett of the Harvard Business School think they have one: "Employability.” If managers offer the right kinds of training and guidance, and change their attitude towards their underlings(下属), they will be able to reassure their employees that they will always have the skills and experience to find a good job–even if it is with a different company.
Unfortunately, they promise more than they deliver. Their thoughts on what an ideal organization should accomplish are hard to quarrel with: Encourage people to be creative, make sure the gains from creativity are shared with the pains of the business that can make the most of them, keep the organization from getting stale(陈旧的) and so forth. The real disappointment comes when they attempt to show how firms might actually create such an environment. At its nub (要点) is the notion that companies can attain their elusive goals by changing their implicit contract with individual workers, and treating them as a source of value rather than a part in a machine.
The authors offer a few inspiring examples of companies–they include Motorola, 3M and ABB–that have managed to go some way towards creating such organizations. But they offer little useful guidance on how to go about it, and leave the biggest questions unanswered. How do you continuously train people, without diverting them from their everyday job of making the business more profitable? How do you train people to be successful elsewhere while still encouraging them to make big commitments to your own firm? How do you get your newly liberated employees to spend their time on ideas that create value, and not simply on those they enjoy? Most of their answers are platitudinous (平常的), and when they are not they are unconvincing.
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We can infer from the passage that in the past an employee ________________.
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The author is making comments on the idea that ________________.
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In their work, Ghoshal and Bartlett discuss __________.
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According to Christopher Bartlett, ________________will improve "employability".
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The companies in the book including Motorola, 3M and ABB are examples that __________.

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A.had job security and opportunity of promotion
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B.had to compete with each other to keep his job
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C.had to undergo training all the time
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D.had no difficulty climbing the corporate ladder
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（5）New measurements taken from sleeping people explain, at least in part, why dreams tend to have such bizarre but vivid storylines. The findings deal a blow to the Freudian interpretation of dreams but leave open the possibility that some useful personal meaning can be extracted from them. The main purpose of dreams, however, the authors of the new study believe, is to test whether the brain has had enough sleep and, if so, to wake it up.
The new results show that in sleep, the frontal lobes of the brain are shut down. In the absence of activity in these lobes, which integrate other information and make sense of the outside world, the sleeping brain's images are driven by its emotional centers. The content of these dreams may be vivid and gripping but lacks coherence.
The new results are consistent with the theory that memories are consolidated during sleep. From the pattern of activity that was recorded, "it seems that memories already in the system are being read out and filed in terms of their emotional salience, which is an extremely interesting idea," said Dr. J. Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School.
The new measurements were made by applying the technique known as PET scanning to sleeping subjects. The biologists focused on the two forms of sleep, known as slow-wave sleep and REM sleep. REM sleep, so named because of the rapid eyeball movements that occur then, takes place about four times during the night and is the phase from which the most vivid dreams are recalled.
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According to this study, the purpose of the dreams is to __________________.
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The researchers focus on REM sleep because __________________.
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The new results of the study __________________.
第4小题
According to the passage, all of the following are true EXCEPT that __________________.
第5小题
A good title for the passage is: __________________.

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A.test if the brain has had enough sleep
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B.show the dreamers bizarre but vivid storylines
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C.prove the correctness of the Freudian interpretation of dreams
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D.extract some useful personal meanings from the dreams
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（6）Human needs seem endless. When a hungry man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat, when a manager gets a new sports car, a big house and pleasure boats dance into view.
The many needs of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough to satisfy one level of needs, another level appears.
The first and most basic level of needs involves food. Once this level is satisfied, the second level of needs, clothing and some sort of shelter, appears. By the end of World War I1, these needs were satisfied for a great majority of Americans. Then a third level appeared. It included such items as automobiles and new houses.
By 1957 or 1958 this third level of needs was fairly well satisfied. Then, in the late 1950s, a fourth level of needs appeared: the "life-enriching" level. While the other levels involve physical satisfaction, that is the feed in comfort, safety, and transportation, this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement, and happiness. It includes a variety of goods and services, many of which could be called "luxury" items. Among them are vacation trips, the best medical and dental care, and recreation. Also included here are fancy goods and the latest styles in clothing.
On the fourth level, a lot of money is spent on services, while on the first three levels more is spent on goods. Will consumers raise their sights to a fifth level of needs as their income increases, or will they continue to demand luxuries and personal services on the fourth level?
A fifth level would probably involve needs that can be achieved best by community action. Consumers may be spending more on taxes to pay for government action against disease, ignorance, crime, and prejudice. After filling our stomachs, our clothes closets, our garages, our teeth, and our minds, we now may seek to ensure the health, safety, and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels.
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According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housing and clothing only when _________________________
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It can be inferred from the passage that by the end of World War II, most Americans _________________________.
第3小题
Which of the following is NOT related to "physical satisfaction"?
第4小题
What is the main concern of man on the fourth level?
第5小题
The author tends to think that the fifth level _________________________

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A.he has saved up enough money
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B.he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelter
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C.he has satisfied his hunger
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D.he has learned to build houses
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（7）As she walked round the huge department store, Edith reflected how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was as easy to please as her mother, who was always delighted with perfume
　 Besides, shopping at this time of the year was a most disagreeable experience: people trod on your toes, poked you with their elbows and almost knocked you over in their haste to get to a bargain ahead of you.
　 Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter where some attractive ties were on display. "They are real silk," the assistant assured her, trying to tempt her. "Worth double the price." But edit knew from past experience that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father.
　 She moved on reluctantly and then quite by chance, stopped where a small crowd of man had gathered round a counter. She found some good quality pipes on sale—–and the prices were very reasonable. Edith did not hesitate for long: although her father only smoked a pipe occasionally, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please him.
　When she got home, with her small well-chosen present concealed in her handbag, her parents were already at the supper table. Her mother was in an especially cheerful mood, "Your father has at last to decide to stop smoking." She informed her daughter.
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Edith's father _________________.
第2小题
The assistant spoke to Edith because she seemed_________________.
第3小题
Edith stopped at the next counter________________________.
第4小题
Edith's father smoked a pipe_________________.
第5小题
Shopping was very disagreeable at that time of the year because_________________.

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A.did not like present
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B.never got present
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C.preferred ties
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D.was difficult to choose a present for
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（8）Today, as in every other day of the year, more than 3000 U.S. adolescents will smoke the奥鹏期末考核ir first cigarette on their way to becoming regular smokers as adults. During their lifetime, it can be expected that of these 3000 about 23 will be murdered, 30 will die in traffic accidents, and nearly 750 will be killed by a smoking-related disease. The number of deaths attributed to cigarette smoking outweighs all other factors, whether voluntary or involuntary, as a cause of death.
　　Since the late 1970s, when daily smoking among high school seniors reached 30 percent, smoking rates among youth have declined. While the decline is impressive, several important issues must be raised.
　　First, in the past several years, smoking rates among youth have declined very little. Second, in the late 1970s, smoking among male high school seniors exceeded that among female by nearly 10 percent. The statistic is reversing. Third , several recent studies have indicate high school dropouts have excessively high smoking rates, as much as 75 percent .
　　Finally, though significant declines in adolescent smoking have occurred in the past decade, no definite reasons for the decline exist. Within this context, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) began its current effort to determine the most effective measures to reduce smoking levels among youth.
第1小题
According to the author, the deaths among youth are mainly caused by __________.
第2小题
Every day there are over__________high school students who will become regular smoker.
第3小题
By "dropout" the author means________________.
第4小题
The reason for declining adolescent smoking is that __________________.
第5小题
What is implied but not stated by the author is that __________________.

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A.traffic accidents
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B.smoking-related disease
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C.murder
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D.all of these
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（9）Last December 22 a pickup truck slid on an icy bridge over the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth, and slammed into the guardrail, where workers were removing scaffolding from a paving project. The impact threw Cornell Taylor, 43, more than 70 feet into the frigid water below. Nearby, Joseph G.Brisson, 36, was in the wheelhouse of his tugboat. He and his crew were talking about the upcoming holidays when suddenly their chatter was interrupted by an urgent voice: "Man down!" Brisson saw Taylor hit the water. "He went down a few times and all I saw was a hand." Realizing there was no time to wait for rescue crews, Brisson took off his shoes and handed his wallet to a co-worker, then jumped feet-first into the 40-degree water. Swimming to Taylor, Brisson helped the disoriented man get his face above water. "I told him I was not going to let him go, that if he went, I was going with him." The river current was freezing. "I couldn't feel my legs, arms or hands," Brisson said. He locked his legs around Taylor's waist and kept the injured man float and talking. "I told him we were going to be all right, that we were both going to enjoy Christmas. "Finally, after about 30 minutes in the water, the men were pulled to safety. Calling himself "a normal Joe," Brisson says, "I have a family. I thought about that. But I thought about how life is very important, I couldn't let anything happen to him."
第1小题
What happened to Cornell Taylor?
第2小题
After Brisson saw Taylor fall into the river, he ( ).
第3小题
What did Brisson say to the injured man in the water?
第4小题
The word "frigid" in paragraph one means ( ).
第5小题
By calling himself a normal Joe, Brisson means that ( ).

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A.he was thrown to the guardrail
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B.he lost control of his truck
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C.he was removed from a paving project
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D.he was thrown into the cold river
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（1）Among the pleasures in the world, the joy from reading can be one. Happy is the man who acquires the ## of reading when he is young. He has secured a lifelong ##of pleasure, instruction, and ##. So long as he has his## books, he need never feel lonely. He always has a pleasant ##of leisure moments, ##he need never feel ##. He is the possessor of wealth more ## than gold. Ruskin calls books “Kings’ Treasuries”—treasuries filled, not ## gold and silver and precious stones, but with ## much more valuable than these—knowledge, ## thoughts, and high ideals. Poor indeed is the men who does not read, and empty is his life.
## we choose the right kind of books, reading gives the ## kind of pleasure. Some books we read simply for pleasure and ##—for example, good novels. And novels and books of imagination must have their ## in everyone’s reading. When we are tired, or the brain is weary with ##study, it is recreation to ## ourselves in some absorbing story written by a ## hand.
But to read nothing but books of fiction is like eating nothing but cakes and sweetmeats. ## we need plain, wholesome food for the body, so we must have serious reading for the ##. And here we can choose according to our taste.

A.custom
B.tradition
C.habit
D.convention
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（2）What is happiness? We Americans believe that the right to ## happiness is issued to us with the birth ##, but no one seems quite sure## way it ran.
##, we Americans seem to be ## to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have ## it to Heaven when we ##enough.
And at the same time the ##of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately ##.
Advertising is one of our major##, and advertising exists not to ##desires but to create them—and to create them faster than any man’s## can satisfy them. We are taught that to##is to be happy, and then we are ## to want. We are even told it is our ##to want. It was only a few years ago, to ##a single example, that car dealers across the country were flying banners that ##“You Auto Buy Now”. They were calling ##Americans, as an act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, ## money they did not have, automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time the next year’s## were released.

A.pursue
B.persist
C.preserve
D.prevail
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（3）Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.
## in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a town.
This street was## on both sides with many ## businesses.
Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. ##,some shops offered ## .
These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.
## in the 1950s, a change began to##. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street## too few parking places were ## shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces## the city limits.
Open space is what their car driving customers needed. And open space is what they got ## the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centres, or rather malls, ## as a collection of small new stores ## crowded city centres. ## by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from ## areas to outlying malls. And the growing ## of shopping centres led ## to the building of bigger and better stocked stores. ## the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves.
In addition to providing the ## of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, ## benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment

A.As early as
B.Early
C.Early as
D.Earlier
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