题目内容
Chilean rescued miner Edison Pena ran the New York City Marathon on November 7th , less than a month after he was rescued from a collapsed (坍塌的) mine that trapped him and the other 32 miners for 69 days. Pena ran 10 km daily through the mine’s tunnels (巷道) to beat the anxiety, wearing cut-down boots until rescuers sent him a pair of sports shoes through a narrow hole that served as the miners’ “lifeline” to the surface.
“When I ran in the darkness, I was running for life,” Pena told a news conference in New York. “I was running to show that I wasn’t just waiting around. I also wanted God to see that I really wanted to live.” The miners were discovered alive on August 22---17 days after the mine collapsed, but it took many more days for rescuers to dig a hole big enough to bring them out.
The New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, had invited Edison Pena to the event after hearing his story. They thought he could ride in the lead vehicle or hold the finish line tape, but Pena said last week he did not want to watch, he wanted to run. “I was very eager to take on this big challenge,” he said. “I wanted to show the world I could run.” He hoped to run the 26.2-mile race in about six hours. “I have a knee injury, but I am eager to cross the finish line,” he said.
An Elvis Presley fan who asked rescuers to send the singer’s music down into the mine, Pena broke into song at the news conference with the Presley hit Return to Sender.
On the morning of November 7th, Pena, known as “the runner” by fellow miners trapped with him, set out to cover the course along with thousands of other runners and completed the race in five hours and 40 minutes.
68. When trapped underground, Pena ran a long way every day to _______.
A. find a way to get out B. get rid of his uneasy feelings
C. keep himself from coldness D. dig a lifeline to the ground
69. According to the passage, Pena _______.
A. was not expected to run the marathon at first
B. failed to achieve the goal he had set for the marathon
C. wore sports shoes while working underground
D. was asked to sing a Presley’s song at a news conference
70. During the rescue of the Chilean trapped miners, the digging of the escape hole lasted about _________.
A. 17 days B. 22 days C. 52 days D. 69 days
71. Pena can be best described as _________.
A. smart-minded B. warm-hearted C. hard-working D. strong-willed
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名校课堂系列答案In recent years, especially during the l960s, there was much discussion about “the brain drain (排干, 流失),” which dealt with the problem of students and learned people who left their own countries for other countries that offered better chances for study, research, and employment．For example, according to a report from U．N., between 1962 and l966 more than 50 percent of all engineering graduates of Iran and 14 percent of Iranian scientists left their country for work abroad．Over 30 percent of Chilean engineers and 15 percent of Turkish physicians also went to work in other countries．Probably the greatest brain drain occurred among young scientists who had gone abroad to study．Many of them had planned to return to their countries to teach but chose to remain in more industrialized nations where they were able to continue their work and their research in fields in which there were no job possibilities at home．The countries that attracted most of these scientists were the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia.
Recent studies show that the brain drain to the United States may be decreasing．Many foreign scientists are going home again, and in some cases American scientists are leaving the United States for employment in other countries．The main reasons are that good jobs are becoming fewer here, money for national research has been sharply cut, and university fellowships reduced too．However, in the field of medicine the drain to the United States still goes on．Today more than one of every five American doctors is foreign - born, and several thousand foreign doctors immigrate to the United States each year．Over eighty countries have asked the State Department to send students who are skilled in important fields such as medicine back home when their study programs are over.
【小题1】Which of the following is not the reason for “the brain drain”?
| A．Good housing. | B．Better research condition. |
| C．Good job possibility | D．Better chances of study.. |
| A．many foreign scientists are ordered to return to their motherlands |
| B．they don’t need any foreign scientists now |
| C．there are fewer and fewer good jobs in the USA |
| D．the universities refuse to provide money for the foreign scientists |
A．About half of them. B More than 20 percent
C．Several thousand. D．About 15 percent.
【小题4】Which is the best title for this passage?
A．How to seek a job in the USA. B．Doctors’ immigration to the USA.
C．A strange case. D．The brain drain.