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第1题:
Which of the following is true of the author?
A.He got no access to success.
B.He wrote back to his father at 12.
C.He was surk his parents loved him.
D.He whce asked his father about the letter.
第2题:
B
Open Letter to an Editor
I had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently---one who works for you. In fact, he's one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.
Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume (简历) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlines showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how he finds issues (问题), approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your best. I'm sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his job. He has a great assignment (分工), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates the responsibility you've given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.
So why is he looking for a way out?
He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, coached to new heights.
The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.
He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what he's doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. That's what you want for him, too, isn't it?
So your reporter has set me thinking.
Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists---everyone--is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can't do it, they'll find someone who can.
60. What does the writer think of the reporter?
A. Optimistic.
B. Imaginative.
C. Ambitious.
D. Proud.
第3题:
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Andy rode slowly on his way to school, day-dreaming about the fishing trip that his father had prornised him. He was so busy dreaming about all the fish he would catch that he was unaware of everything else around him.
He rode along until a strange around drew him to the present.He came to a stop and looked curiously up to the heavens.What he saw him. A huge swarm of bees filled the sky like clack cloud and the buzzing mass towards him.
With no wast.Andy sped off in the opposite direction, riding without knowing how to escape the swarm a rapidly beating heart and his legs pumping furiously down the rough road. As the bees came closer, his panic incread. Andy knew that he was sensitive to bee stings(蜇).The last sting had landed him in hospital-and that was only one bee sting!He had been forced to stay in bead for two whole days.Suddenly,his father’s words came to him.“When you are in a tight situation, don’t panie. Use your brain and think your ways out of it.”
On a nearby hill, he could see smoke waving slowly skywards form. the chimney of the Nelson family home.“Bees don’t like smoke,”he thought.“They couldn’t get into the house.”Andy raced towards the Nelson house, but
the bees were gaining ground. Andy knew be could not reach the house in time. He estimated that the bees would eatch up with him soon.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he spotted a small dam used by Mr. Nelson to irnigate his vegetable garden. Off his bike and into the cool water he dived, disappearing below the surface and away from the savage insects. After holding his breath for as long as he could, Andy came up for air and noticed the bees has gone. Dragging himself out of the dang the struggled up the hilly slope and rang the doorbell. Mr Nelson took hism inside and rang his mother.
“You’ll really red that aming break to help you recover, ” laughed his mother with lelief. “Thank goodness you didn’t paril But Andy did not hear her. He was dreaming once again at the she he would catch tomorrow.”
56. Why did Andy fail to notice the swarm of bees earlier?
A. He was riding to school.
B. He was listening to a strange sound.
C. He was going fishing with his father.
D. He was lost in the thought of the fishing trip.
第4题:
He was reluctant to give up his travel plans but I succeeded in persuading him _____.
A、to do
B、to give up
C、to
D、to do this
第5题:
Reading Comprehension
Directions:There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questionsor unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Youshould decide on the best choice.
Questions 56- 60 are based on Passage One:
Passage One
Mr. Brown was going away for a week.Before he left,he said to his son.“If anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea.”
“OK, Dad.”said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, so he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him.His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.
Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was noman to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.
The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said,“Where is your father?” The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper.He could not find it.He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, “No more. ”
The man was very surprised.He asked, “No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?”
“Burnt yesterday evening. ”
Mr. Brown told his son that________。
A. he would be away from home for four days
B. he would be back in seven days
C. he would be back in a month
D. he liked a cup of tea
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feels happy, thinking of how nice his friends were to him
feels he may not have “read” his friends true feelings correctly
thinks it was a mistake to have broken up with his girl friend, Helen
is sorry that his friends let him down
第12题:
disturbed
distinguished
distresses
disputes
第13题:
Passage Four
Archimedes was a famous Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born around 287 BC and he died in the year 212 BC.
Archimedes is most well-known for one specific idea that he came up with. "Archimedes's Principle" states that a solid object which is immersed in a liquid is pushed up by a force which is equal to the weight of the water that the object moves. For example, if you put a piece of wood and a piece of gold the same size in water, only the wood will float. Both the wood and gold move the same amount of water, but the wood weighs less than this water, while the gold weighs more.
It is believed that Archimedes discovered this principle when the king of Syracuse asked him to solve a problem. The king wanted to know if his crown was pure gold or a mixture of gold and silver. The king, of course, did not melt his crown to find out. The idea came to Archimedes as he lowered himself into his bath. He noticed how the water spilled out of the tub. He decided to use the same idea for the crown. He knew that a gold crown immersed in water would weigh more than one made of silver. The experiment was done and the goldsmith was proved guilty of trying to cheat the king.
48. A good title for the selection is______.
A. Archimedes
B. Archimedes's Principle
C. A Gold and Silver Crown
D. The King of Syracuse
第14题:
About 150 years ago,a musician sat quietly at a concert in Vienna. He was playing his new symphony. He couldn‘t (11) that the audience were clapping wildly. He was deaf. He was Beethoven,one of the greatest musicians who ever lived.
Beethoven wrote about 300 (12) of music. He wrote some of his most beautiful pieces after he became deaf. It is hard for anyone to be deaf. But it is even worse for a musician than for (13) else. Think of not being able to hear the music you have written!
As a child Beethoven did not have a happy life. His father drank (14) .When the boy was only four,his father decided to make a musician (15) him. Hour after hour he had to practice (16) the violin. He learned so fast that he was able to make a concert tour when he was eleven. When he was seventeen,the great Mozart praised him. After he studied with Haydn. Beethoven was writing a great deal of music (17) .
Beethoven had an ugly face and a bad temper. He was often invited (18) the homes of wealthy people. They forgave him when his temper flared up. Illness made him become deaf when he was (19) thirty-one.
Beethoven wrote long pieces and short ones,gentle ones and (20) ones.
A. hear
B. listen
C. listen to
D. hear of
第15题:
A、for his coming
B、him coming
C、for him to come
D、of him to come
第16题:
根据下列材料请回答 41~45 题:
C
Harry was a boy of fourteen years old.He was tall and stron9.And he ran the fastest in his class.So everyone was very proud of him in his class.A new student came to his class a month ago.His name was Mike.He was thin and short.But his classmates found that he ran very fast while they were playing football.They wanted to know if Mike could run faster than Harry.Jack,one of
Harry’S friends,told Harry about it.Of course,Harry didn’t believe it.
“Why not have a race with him?”said Jack.“That’s a good idea l',said Harry.“Go to tell the unlucky boy.I'll have a race with him tomorrow morning.”
Early the next morning,Harry got ready for the race.He was sure that he could be first.Jack didn’t wake up on time and couldn’t go with him.That evening Jack went to see Harry.They began to talk about the race.Harry’S grandma heard them in the next room.She came in and asked,“What’S the result,Harry?”
“I was the second.Grandma.”answered Harry.
“Congratulations to you!”the old woman said happily.“And how was Mike?”
“He was the last but one.”
第 41 题 Harry”classmates were proud of him because______.
A.he was tall
B.he was the top student in his school
C.he ran fastest in his class
D.he was strong
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