题目内容
He ______ a soldier for three years. Now, he works with an international company.
A. was B. had been C. would be D. has been
A
You are near the front line of a battle .Around you shells are exploding ;people are shooting from a house behind you .What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier .You aren’t 36 carrying a gun .You’re standing in front of a 37 and you’re telling the TV 38 what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter ,and it can be very 39 .In the first two years of the 40 in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫）,28 reporters and photographers were killed .Hundreds more were 41 .What kind of people put themselves in danger to 42 pictures to our TV screens and 43 to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s 44 to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s 45 you find the excitement .So when the first opportunity comes ,you take it 46 it is a war.”
But there are moments of 47 . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes ,when you’re lying on the ground and bullets （子弹）are flying 48 your ears ,you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling 49 after a while and when the next war starts , you’ll be
50 .”
“None of us believes that we’re going to 51 ,” adds Michael .But he always 52 a lucky charm（护身符）with him .It was given to him by his wife for his first war .It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, 53 ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this ,I 54 I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God 55 ,because you know he doesn’t believe you .”
36．A．simply | B．really | C．merely | D．even |
37．A．crowd | B．house | C．battlefield | D．camera |
38．A．producers | B．viewers | C．directors | D．actors |
39．A．dangerous | B．exciting | C．normal | D．disappointing |
40．A．stay | B．fight | C．war | D．life |
41．A．injured | B．buried | C．defeated | D．saved |
42．A．bring | B．show | C．take | D．make |
43．A．scenes | B．passages | C．stories | D．contents |
44．A．belief | B．dream | C．duty | D．faith |
45．A．why | B．what | C．how | D．where |
46．A．even so | B．ever since | C．as if | D．even if |
47．A．fear | B．surprise | C．shame | D．sadness |
48．A．into | B．around | C．past | D．through |
49．A．returns | B．goes | C．continues | D．occurs |
50．A．there | B．away | C．out | D．home |
51．A．leave | B．escape | C．die | D．remain |
52．A．hangs | B．wears | C．holds | D．carries |
53．A．never | B．many times | C．some time | D．seldom |
54．A．consider | B．accept | C．promise | D．guess |
55．A．whispering | B．laughing | C．screaming | D．crying |
Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants. 
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe（成熟） or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns(角) had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today—a person who is new in a job. Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.
Green is also the color used to describe the powerful feeling, jealousy(嫉妒). The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play “Othello”. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay rise and she does not.
【小题1】Greenhorn now refers to ____.
| A．a person who is new in a job | B．a new solider | C．a young horse | D．a thumb |
| A．whose garden is greener than others’ | B．whose thumbs are in green color |
| C．who is good at growing plants | D．who is younger than his neighbors |
| A．colors | B．language | C．politics | D．agriculture |
| A．In about the 16th century, a greenhorn meant an experienced soldier |
| B．The Green Revolution may have some connection with green thumbs |
| C．The green-eyed monster was probably created by William Shakespeare |
| D．The green-eyed monster can be used to describe a person who is jealous |