Urban legends are stories that are told and believed in many places.Too many places,in fact.It simply isn’t credible that the same unlikely events take place in so many different towns.For some reason,though,that particular set of events appeals to the imagination and the tale spreads.
A very common North American urban legend concerns a mad man in the woods.A dangerous mad man has escaped from a hospital for the mentally ill.At some point in his life he has lost a hand and it has been replaced by a hook.A boy and a girl are out dating,sitting in a car.They hear on the radio that the area is dangerous,so they drive off.When they arrive home they find a bloodstained hook hanging on the door handle of the car door next to the girl.
Missing kidney(肾)stories are fairly common.Of course,the details are variable.It might be a woman waking up in a strange hotel in Bangkok,or a man finding himself in a cold bath in Toronto.or a young man with faint memories of wild disco party,but they all find a flesh wound,and discover that one of their kidneys has been removed and,probably, sold.
The back seat killer has plenty of drama.A woman gets into her Car late at night.Another Car follows her, speeding,flashing lights and really frightening her.She gets home and keeps on pressing the horn.Her husband runs out.The chasing car stops.The husband demands to know why the driver has been frightening his wife.He says he saw a strange man get into the back of the car as the wife got in,and then hide.They go and look,and there is a dangerous mad man...
【小题1】What is the writer’s attitude towards “urban legends”?

A.Curious.B.Disgusted.C.Frightened.D.Doubtful.
【小题2】What can be inferred from the hook hanging on the Car door?
A.The mad man left it there as a warning.
B.The mad man narrowly escaped being injured in a car accident.
C.The mad man had just been about to attack the girl.
D.The boy had meant to frighten the girl with it.
【小题3】What do we know about the three people mentioned in the third paragraph?
A.They had their kidney removed when they were unconscious.
B.They sold their kidneys for profit.
C.They were suffering loss of memories.
D.They had been wounded before the accident.
【小题4】Why does the woman driver keep on pressing the horn?
A.To warn the other driver not to follow her.
B.To give herself enough courage to face the danger.
C.To made her husband aware of something urgent.
D.To inform her family of her safe return.
【小题5】How should we describe the second driver in the 4th paragraph?
A.Crazy.B.Dangerous.C.Brave.D.Helpful.

How to Argue with Your Boss

    Before you argue with your boss, check with the boss’s secretary to determine his mood. If he ate nails for breakfast, it is not a good idea to ask him for something. Even without the boss’s secretary, there are keys to timing: don’t approach the boss when he’s on deadline; don’t go in right before lunch, when he is apt to be distracted and rushed; don’t go in just before or after he has taken a vacation.

    If you’re mad, that will only make your boss mad. Calm down first. And don’t let a particular concern open the floodgates for all your accumulated frustration. The boss will feel that you think negatively about the company and it is hopeless trying to change your mind. Then, maybe he will dismiss you.

    Terrible disputes can result when neither the employer nor the employee knows what is the problem the other wants to discuss. Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are made clear. The employee has to get his point across clearly in order to make the boss understand it.

    Your boss has enough on his mind without your adding more. If you can’t put forward an immediate solution, at least suggest how to approach the problem. People who frequently present problems without solutions to their boss may soon find they can’t get past the secretary.

    To deal effectively with a boss, it’s important to consider his goals and pressures. If you can put yourself in the position of being a partner to the boss, then he will be naturally more inclined to work with you to achieve your goals.

1.Paragraph 2 ______

2.Paragraph 3 ______

3.Paragraph 4 ______

4.Paragraph 5 ______

 

A. Keep Your Voice Low All the Time

B. Put Yourself in the Boss’s Position

C. Propose Your Solution

D. Don’t Go in When You Are Angry

E. Make the Issue Clear

F. Never Give in

 

5.If you want to ask the boss for anything, it is important to find out first _________.

6.It is necessary to make clear to the boss ___________.

7.It is not wise to present the boss with a problem ___________.

8.You must be considerate and think of the troubles ____________.

 

A. to give the boss your advice

B. how he is feeling

C. the boss may have

D. what you really want to talk to him about

E. without suggesting a way to solve it

F. how unhappy you are

 

One day my math teacher asked me to help him save back-up copies of his work in the computer. I then realized I was able to  36  the grades for all of his classes. I showed him how to copy files from one disk to another and he  37  me.

A few days later be asked me to help him again, because he   38  how to do it. when I began to show this to him, some students in my class   39  and began to talk among themselves   40  . Later that day, at lunch time, I was   41  by several of them.

“Hey, could you help us change our grades in math? We’ll  42  you…”

I could not believe what I was hearing.I could get paid for something very   43  ." All right.I'll do it." The next day my math teacher   44  me to help him out.When he was not paying attention, I began to change their grades from F's to A's.

I soon became very   45   among my friends.They began to treat me like a god with a magical  46  .I began to change the grades of students.Word   47   quickly and I became very rich.

Everything was going fine   48   I was called into the headmaster's office.When I got there, my teacher was mad, and the headmaster had an angry   49   in his eyes.  "I have known you for three years now.I don't want to  50   what your teacher said, but I'm afraid that I must.He has too much   51   , " he said." Do you have anything to say   52   yourself?" he asked.

"No." I said finally.I did not realize how serious my actions had been.I had violated the      53  of my teacher, and the headmaster.And there was no way   54  .I was forced to leave my school.

That was a good   55  for me.

1.A.access           B.assess         C.change         D.mark

2.A.guided           B.supported      C.thanked        D.accepted

3.A.doubted          B.remembered     C.reminded       D.forgot

4.A.hid              B.noticed        C.complained     D.agreed

5.A.disappointedly B.quietly          C.freely         D.angrily

6.A.appointed        B.approved       C.approached     D.appreciated

7.A.pay              B.praise         C.follow         D.inspire

8.A.familiar         B.simple         C.interesting    D.pleasant

9.A.forced           B.advised        C.encouraged     D.got

10.A.optimisticB.popular              C.sensitive      D.grateful

11.A.energy          B.strength       C.right          D.power

12.A.escaped         B.slipped        C.spread         D.fled

13.A.until           B.since          C.as             D.after

14.A.sight           B.look           C.light          D.feeling

15.A.believe         B.ignore         C.oppose         D.influence

16.A.experienceB.pressure             C.confidence     D.evidence

17.A.to              B.by             C.for            D.of

18.A.intention       B.honor          C.promise        D.trust

19.A.on              B.in             C.back           D.down

20.A.lesson B.skill    C.story    D.example

 

The Internet has become part of teenagers’ life.

A news report on 3,375 students aged from 10 to 18 in seven Chinese cities found that 38 per cent of them believe they use the Internet often.

While most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help in their studies, some are not using it in a good way. Many are playing online games too much. A few even visit Web sites they should not look at. A middle school teacher from Beijing warns that bad things can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet. She had a student who used to be good at school. But then he started visiting sex Web sites. He went mad, cheated a girl and was taken away by the police.

In order to help young people use the Internet in a good way, a textbook on good Internet behavior has started to be used in some Shanghai middle schools this term. The book uses real examples to teach students all about good ways of using the Internet. The book gives useful advice such as it's good to read news or find helpful information to study.

Some students also make online friends. But if you are meeting a friend offline, make sure your parents know. Teachers and parents all think the book is a very good idea. This teacher said the book will be a guide for teens using the Internet. She believes it will keep students away from bad sites. “Many students are using the Internet without guidance from their parents,” she said. “The book will teach students how to be a good person in the online world.”

1.The third paragraph mainly tells us that ________.

A.some students are not using the Internet correctly

B.all students in Beijing use the Internet to help their school work

C.a teacher in Beijing is worried about her students

D.some students visit sex Web sites

2.The textbook mainly tells us ________.

A.why we should use the Internet

B.not to visit sex Web sites

C.how to use the Internet correctly

D.how to get help from others

3.The writer advises the readers to ________.

A.let their parents know before visiting their online friends

B.not to make friends online

C.read the textbook carefully

D.only read news on the Internet

4.From this passage we know that ________.

A.more and more students have given up visiting bad Web sites

B.schools and teachers begin to pay attention to students’ use of the Internet

C.no more homework will be given in Shanghai

D.less and less information can be found on line

 

Do you know what it means when somebody tells you that he had “a catch-22 experience”?

The phrase “catch-22” comes from a book of the same title by the American writer Joseph Heller published in 1961.Catch-22 is a book of black humor.The author uses silly and even surreal(超现实的)events.It has a non-linear narrative structure(非线性的叙述结构)in which events follow the theme rather than the timing,to give us a very strange picture full of contradictions(矛盾).

The story takes places in a bomber base in Italy during World WarⅡ.The main character, Captain Yossarian wants to leave the war.Unfortunately, every time he completes the number of tasks to be sent home,the number is raised and he is forced to continue fighting.It seems hopeless for him to go home under the very strange rule in this Air Force-catch-22:only when a soldier goes crazy can he be allowed to go home.But he has to go to the hospital to show the doctors that he is crazy.However, if he tells them he is crazy but is obvious healthy, he cannot go home.In short,catch-22 is“heads 1 wintails I loseIf you can you can’tand if you can’tyou can”Whenever you try to behave correctly in a crazy world.There’s a catch(潜在的困难).

During the Vietnam War, the phrase“catch-22”became a popular term for being caught in a no.win,circular dilemma and is now commonly used. The Oxford English Dictionary explains catch.22 as“a set of circumstances in which one requirement,etc,is dependent upon another, which is in turn dependent upon the first.”

1. Which of the following statements is right?

A. Catch-22 is one of Heller’s experiences during World War II.

B. Catch-22 is one of Yossarian’s experiences during the Vietnam War.

C. The events in catch-22 follow the theme.

D. The events in catch-22 follow the timing.

2.Why did Captain Yossarian fail to leave the war?

A. He wasn’t so anxious to leave the war.

B. He didn’t finish his tasks.

C. He was put into a catch-22 situation.

D. He wasn’t mad enough to be sent home.

3.What does the underlined sentence most probably mean?

A. Whenever and however you try, you are unable to reach the goal.

B. You can solve every problem you meet as long as you want to.

C. You can’t solve any problem in your life.

D. If you can’t solve all the problems.you can solve none.

4.The phrase“catch-22”came into being ________ _.

A. in World War II    B. in the Vietnam War   C. in the 1950s              D. in the 1960s

 

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