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Mark Zukerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, an extremely popular social working website that started in the United States.

Now, millions of student users visit Facebook daily and the website is one of the top ten widely visited sites on the Internet worldwide. College and high school students use Facebook to communicate with friends and share both information and pictures for free. The company earns money through advertising.

Many other companies have been rumored(谣传）to be interested in buying Facebook. Just a few years after Mark started the company, he was approached by Terry Semel, who was the CEO of Yahoo. Terry offered Mark one billion dollars($1,000,000,000) to sell Facebook to Yahoo. Mark said no, though. He stands behind his dreams at the very beginning. He knows the value of the company could fall down; however, he is in this to build something unbelievable, not be bought out by another company.

Maybe he was smart. Now Facebook is rumored to be worth billions of dollars and bigger companies like Microsoft or Google want a share of the company. Some private firms are also interested. Facebook could sell 15billion dollars if Mark decides to sell it at all. Perhaps Mark will just keep working from his California office to continue his dream of building something cool.

1..Facebook makes money from _____ .

A. members         B. advertisements        C. pictures    D. students

2..Terry Semel was the CEO of _______.

A. Microsoft        B. Facebook             C. Google     D. Yahoo

3..Which of the following words best describes Mark Zukerberg according to the passage?

A. Determined        B. Humorous             C. Gentle     D. Selfless

 

【答案】

 

1.B

2.D

3.A

【解析】

试题分析：

1..B 细节题。根据第一段最后一句The company earns money through advertising.说明B正确。

2.D 细节题。根据第三段第二行he was approached by Terry Semel, who was the CEO of Yahoo说明D正确。

3.A 推理题。根据第三段2,3,4行Terry offered Mark one billion dollars($1,000,000,000) to sell Facebook to Yahoo. Mark said no, though. He stands behind his dreams at the very beginning.说明他坚持自己的理想，不想出售Facebook。故A正确。

考点：考查新闻报告类短文阅读

点评：文章介绍了著名的社交网站Facebook的CEO Mark Zukerberg坚持自己的理想创办Facebook的故事。告诉我们做任何事情都要坚持，坚持自己的理想不放送就会有很好的结果。本文考查的细节题较多，不能以自己的观点代替作者的观点，推理的根据来自于上下文，同时根据词义关系推断具体细节。

 

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The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival _1.________ (mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.

Qu was a minister of the State of Chu ____2.___ (situate) in the present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period（战国时期）. He was upright, loyal and highly respected. ____3.__, he was dismissed from office. __4.____ (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were ___5.____ (able) to recover his body.

The people of Chu __6.___ mourned Qu’s death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost ___7.___ year on the day of his death. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile（爬行动物）in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised __8._____ to wrap the rice and bind it _9.____ throwing it into the river.

During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize（象征，表示） the rice offerings to Qu. And the dragon-boat races symbolize __10._____ many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.

 

 

Mark Twain left school when he was twelve. Though he had little school education, he became the most famous writer of his time. He made millions of dollars by writing. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clements, but he is better known all over the world as Mark Twain, his penname.

Mark Twain was born in 1835 and he was not a healthy baby. In fact, he was not expected to live through the first winter. But with his mother’s tender care, he managed to survive. As a boy, he caused much trouble to his parents. He used to play jokes on all his friends and neighbors. He didn’t like to go to school, and he ran away from home from time to time. He always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi. He was nearly drowned(淹死) nine times.

After his father’s death in 1847, Mark Twain began to work for a printer, who only provided him with food and clothing. Then, he worked as a river-boat pilot and later joined the army. But shortly after that he became a miner, during this period, he started to write short stories.  Afterwards he became a full-time writer.

In 1870, Mark Twain got married. In the years that followed he wrote many books including Tom Sawyer in 1876, and Huckleberry Finn in 1884, which made him famous, and brought him a great fortune（财富）.Unfortunately, Mark Twain got into debts in bad investments（投资） and he had to write large numbers of stories to pay these debts. In 1904, his wife died and then three of their children passed away.

He died on April 21, 1910 at the age of 70.

1.Mark Twain was ________ in his childhood.    

A．a naughty boy

B．a good student

C．a handsome boy

D．a strong boy

2.Mark Twain began to write short stories when he _______.

A．was at school

B．was in the army

C．worked for a printer

D．was a miner

3.Before he became a full time writer Mark Twain had not been ___

A．a printer.

B．a miner

C．a tailor

D．a soldier

4.Mark Twain’s wife died _________

A．soon after she give birth to three children

B．at the same time with her children

C．before three of her children died

D．after Mark Twain had died

 

“Mark Twain” was the name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835～1910) when he wrote books.His father was a lawyer，but a poor one，who lived in Florida，Missouri.The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching.He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met.His father died when he was very young，and then there was even less money than before.

Many of the men in this part of America worked in the ships on the great Mississippi River，and he did this himself at one time (1857).

Where did he find the name “Mark Twain”？ It came from the great river itself.It was part of one of the cries used by men who worked in the ships.When a man called “By the mark twain！” he meant that the river was “two marks deep” there，that is to say，six feet deep ( “Twain” is an old form of the word “Two”.) Samuel Clemens often heard these words when he was young，and he used them as a pen name all his life.

During his work on the Mississippi he met travelers of all kinds，and this helped him a great deal when he started to write.But the number of travelers became smaller when war started in America in 1861.Many of the great ships on the river stopped work.Samuel left then and went to Nevada with his brother，who was at that time Governor of Nevada.There，near the town of Carson，Samuel became a gold miner，but he never made much money at the time.He soon saw that life in the gold mines was not for him.He also tried writing for the newspapers in Nevada，and this seemed more hopeful.He found that he could write.

He went to Europe in 1867 and visited France and Italy.In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon，and two years later he was spending nearly all his time writing.Among his books is his own story (1908).

He is now always known as Mark Twain，and many people do not even know that his family name was Clemens.He traveled in America and in England，and went to Oxford in 1907.He was one of the great American writers of the time，and could make his readers laugh—a thing which few writers can do.He died in 1910.

1.“Mark Twain” was         .

A.a famous American writer

B.name of a book

C.a great river in America

D.a large ship

2.As a child，Samuel did not get much education because         .

A.his father died too early

B.the family was very poor

C.he disliked school very much

D.he could learn what he liked from the people he met

3.What gave him a great deal when he started writing?

A.His poor childhood.

B.The Mississippi River.

C.All kinds of travelers he met.

D.His brother.

4.We can infer（推断）from the passage that         .

A.Samuel loved writing from his early age

B.Samuel did not love writing at the beginning

C.his writings to the newspaper were successful

D.his brother encouraged him to write more

5.According to the writer of the passage，a good writer could         .

A.write a lot for his readers

B.make a lot of money for his family

C.cause his readers to laugh

D.travel everywhere he wanted

 
语法填空。
     The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese
calendar.For thousands of years,the festival 1._____(mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats
in honour of Qu Yuan,who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.
     Qu was a minister of the State of Chu 2._____(situate) in the presentday Hunan and Hubei provinces,
during the Warring States Period (战国时期)．He was upright,loyal and highly respected.3._____,he
was dismissed from office.4._____(realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials,Qu leapt
into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month.Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were
5._____(able) to recover his body.
     The people of Chu 6._____mourned Qu's death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost 7._____
year on the day of his death.But one year,the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge
reptile (爬行动物)in the river had stolen the rice.The spirit then advised 8._____to wrap the rice and
bind it 9._____throwing it into the river.
     During the Duanwu Festival,zong zi is eaten to symbolize (象征,表示) the rice offerings to Qu.And
the dragonboat races symbolize 10._____many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.

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