题目内容
--- He didn’t turn up last night, did he?
--- Yes. But he _______. The meeting had been cancelled.
A. shouldn’t have come B. needn’t have come
C. didn’t need to come D. needn’t come
B
One hot night last July, when our new baby wouldn’t or couldn’t sleep, I tried everything I could think of: a warm bottle, songs gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him. Guessing that I had a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable TV into his room, figuring that watching the late movie was as good a way as any to kill of the hours till dawn. To my surprise, as soon as the TV lit up, the baby quieted right down, and his little eyes focused brightly on the tube. Not to waste an opportunity for sleep, I then tiptoed out of the room, leaving him to watch the actors celebrate John Bellushi’s forty-fifth birthday.
My wife and I heard none of the baby that night, and the next morning when I went into his room, I found him still watching TV himself.
I found in my baby’s behavior a symbol of the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely spit upon them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And so it is in the schools. We find that our students don’t read and they look down upon reading and scold those of us who teach it. All they want to do is watch TV. After this experience with the baby, however, I have reached a conclusion: “Let them watch it!” If television is that much more attractive to children than books, why should we fight about it? Let them watch it all they want!
【小题1】Why did the author bring a TV set into his son’s room?
A.To make his son keep quiet. | B.To spend the night by watching TV programs. |
C.In order not to let his son feel lonely. | D.To make his son go to sleep as soon as possible. |
A.unexpected | B.encouraging | C.exciting | D.calm |
A.a doctor | B.a reporter | C.an editor | D.a teacher |
A.They prefer reading to watching TV. |
B.They like watching TV after school. |
C.They would rather watch TV than read books. |
D.They like their teachers who teach them reading. |
Steve Jobs-A surprising success.
Nothing in the early years of Steve Job’s life suggested that he would be so successful. Born in San Francisco, the child of two students, he was adopted and grew up close to Silicon Valley. While at company-and he and his best friend Steve Wozniak got summer jobs there.
After finishing high school in 1972, Jobs studied at an expensive liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon but he dropped pout after one after one term. He grew his hair and a beard, slept on friends’ floors, and sometimes went to a Hare Krishna temple for free meals. Like many drop-outs at that Beatles-inspired time, his ambition was to visit a guru(古鲁[印度教的宗师或领袖])in India, which he eventually did with a friend. When they got there, the guru had died.
At this point, Jobs has a limited education, and no obvious talents, apart from a notorious(臭名远扬)ability to talk. However, he did have a devoted friend who was an electronics genius. They were a great team. Without Jobs’ s ambition, high design standards, the ability to make deals and great maketing skills-Wozniak might well have spent a quiet life designing hardware at HP.
【小题1】The article tells us that .
A.Steve Jobs’s parents lived in San Francisco |
B.Steve Jobs’s parents were rich |
C.Steve Jobs’s parents worked at Hewlett-Packard |
D.Steve Jobs didn’t know his real parents |
A.He was a Buddhist |
B.His family were Indian |
C.He had very little money |
D.He was inspired by the Beatles |
A.Steve Jobs was uneducated. |
B.Steve Jobs went to India. |
C.Steve Jobs was A GREAT SALESMAN. |
D.Steve Wozniak was loyal. |
A.Steve Jobs was a computer Genius |
B.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were lucky |
C.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked well together |
D.Steve Wozniak liked a quiet life |
Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
"I don't sing." said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!"
The waiter shouted across the room, " Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!"
So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent (天赋)he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.
【小题1】The lady asked the player to sing a song because .
A.she had paid him for this | B.she knew him very well |
C.she wanted to have a change | D.she enjoyed his singsing |
A.the lady helped him a lot | B.he caught the chance |
C.he continued to play in the bar | D.he stopped playing the piano |
A.hide it and wait | B.ask others or help |
C.pay no attention to it | D.work hard to improve yourself |
A.Sing in the Bar | B.Achieve Success in Life |
C.Never Lose Heart | D.Find Your Hidden Talent |