12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. "I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born," he told Good Morning America. "When I was very little," he said, "my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours."
When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a train, he felt great. His journey was so mind-blowing that he couldn’t keep it to himself: he decided to take all his classmates to go on a ride with him. When he found that some of his classmates couldn’t pay the fare, he collected cans (罐子) and bottles and raised more than $1,000 for them.
That trip was such a happy one that he made it a yearly action. "It never gets boring for some reason; it’s just fun," he said. "It really lets people get away from their busy life and have fun.
Every October, Robertson takes a new group of children to ride on the train —but now, he has a problem. Several disabled children were refused because the train was not accessible (可用的) to disabled people. "He was angry to think that children of his own age couldn’t ride a train," his mother said.
But he wouldn’t say no: he recently sent a letter to the train office for help. To his surprise, the leader, Ty Pennington, accepted the letter in person. He said that he and his workers would work on making a train accessible to disabled people.
【小题1】The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train, ________.

A.he was frightened by it
B.he acted as a driver
C.he watched it for hours
D.he fell in love with it
【小题2】The author says John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan, because he ________.
A.was greatly attracted to trains since early childhood
B.said so in Good Morning America
C.took a group of disabled children to travel by train
D.was taken to a train the day he was born
【小题3】The underlined words "mind-blowing" can be replaced by ________.
A.importantB.terribleC.amazingD.disappointing
【小题4】The disabled children were refused to get on the train because _________.
A.the trains then weren’t accessible to the disabled
B.Robertson had not saved enough money for the tickets
C.they couldn’t afford the train tickets
D.the driver would not allow them to do so
【小题5】According to the last paragraph, we can see that Robertson is a ________ child.
A.helpful and crazyB.kind and clever
C.kind but boring D.lazy but kind

12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. "I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born," he told Good Morning America. "When I was very little," he said, "my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours."

When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a train, he felt great. His journey was so mind-blowing that he couldn’t keep it to himself: he decided to take all his classmates to go on a ride with him. When he found that some of his classmates couldn’t pay the fare, he collected cans (罐子) and bottles and raised more than $1,000 for them.

That trip was such a happy one that he made it a yearly action. "It never gets boring for some reason; it’s just fun," he said. "It really lets people get away from their busy life and have fun.

Every October, Robertson takes a new group of children to ride on the train —but now, he has a problem. Several disabled children were refused because the train was not accessible (可用的) to disabled people. "He was angry to think that children of his own age couldn’t ride a train," his mother said.

But he wouldn’t say no: he recently sent a letter to the train office for help. To his surprise, the leader, Ty Pennington, accepted the letter in person. He said that he and his workers would work on making a train accessible to disabled people.

1.The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train, ________.

A.he was frightened by it

B.he acted as a driver

C.he watched it for hours

D.he fell in love with it

2.The author says John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan, because he ________.

A.was greatly attracted to trains since early childhood

B.said so in Good Morning America

C.took a group of disabled children to travel by train

D.was taken to a train the day he was born

3.The underlined words "mind-blowing" can be replaced by ________.

A.important         B.terrible           C.amazing           D.disappointing

4.The disabled children were refused to get on the train because _________.

A.the trains then weren’t accessible to the disabled

B.Robertson had not saved enough money for the tickets

C.they couldn’t afford the train tickets

D.the driver would not allow them to do so

5.According to the last paragraph, we can see that Robertson is a ________ child.

A.helpful and crazy                       B.kind and clever

C.kind but boring                         D.lazy but kind

 

From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch, I  11  a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾), it might be a thank-you for a  12  moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of     13  for the coming test or sporting event.

In early grade school they  14  their notes. But as children grow older they becomes self-conscious(有自我意识的), and 15  he reached high school, my older son, Marc, informed me he no longer  16  my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to  17  them but I still needed to write them, I  18  until the day he graduated.

Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could move  19  for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, graduating from college,   20  two internship (实习) in Washington, D.C., and   21  , becoming a technical assistant in Sacramento,  22  short vacation visits, however, he had lived away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was   23   happy to have Marc back. Since I was  24  making lunch for his younger brother, I    25  one for Marc, too. Imagine my   26  when I got a call from my 24-year-old son,   27  his lunch.

“Did I do something   28 ? Don’t you love me  29  ,Mom?” were just a few of the questions he threw at me as I 30  asked him what was wrong. “My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where’s my note?”

1.                A.carried         B.found          C.included  D.held

 

2.                A.difficult         B.special         C.comfortable   D.separate

 

3.                A.congratulation   B.improvement    C.explanation    D.encouragement

 

4.                A.loved          B.answered       C.wrote    D.examined

 

5.                A.lately          B.by the way      C.by the time    D.gradually

 

6.                A.received        B.understood      C.enjoyed  D.collected

 

7.                A.copy           B.read           C.take D.send

 

8.                A.held up         B.gave up         C.followed  D.continued

 

9.                A.out            B.home          C.to college D.to Sacramento

 

10.               A.organizing      B.planning        C.comparing D.completing

 

11.               A.hopefully       B.finally          C.particularly D.certainly

 

12.               A.Because of      B.Instead of       C.Except for D.As for

 

13.               A.especially       B.immediately     C.equally    D.generally

 

14.               A.once          B.again          C.still   D.even

 

15.               A.packed         B.fetched        C.bought    D.filled

 

16.               A.fear           B.surprise        C.anger D.disappointment

 

17.               A.waiting for      B.worrying about   C.caring for  D.asking about

 

18.               A.wrong         B.funny          C.strange    D.smart

 

19.               A.any more       B.enough         C.once more D.better

 

20.               A.interestingly     B.bitterly         C.politely    D.laughingly

 

 

Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius.“ There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.

But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “ Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

1. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Edison invented the electric light.

B.Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

C.Edison has changed the life of many other people.

D.Few men in history can change other people’s life.

2. Edison thought              .

A.he could be happy if he was a genius

B.genius plays the most important part in one’s success

C.hard work could do better than genius

D.genius could do better than hard work

3. Edison was              .

A.very much interested in nature

B.interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C.interested in changing people’s ideas

D.uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

4.In Edison’s opinion,            .

A.thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help

B.people’s success lies mostly in genius

C.hard work is the second important thing in making people successful

D.there are few secrets for him to discover later

 

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