题目内容
* Thomas Jefferson could read Greek, Latin, French and English.
* John Quincy Adams used to get up two hours before sunrise to go skinny dipping in the Potomac River.
* Andrew Jackson was the only president to ever kill a man in a duel(决斗).
* Franklin Pierce was arrested for running over a woman while driving his carriage in Washington, DC．The charges were later dropped.
* Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding while driving a horse and buggy in Washington, DC．He had to pay a fine of $20 and walk back to the White House.
* Benjamin Harrison was so afraid of electric lights that he used to have White House staff turn them on and off.
* Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards.
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s mother forced him to wear dress until he was five years old.
* Lyndon Baines Johnson used to go through the White House at night turning lights off that were not needed. He didn’t want to waste the taxpayers’ money. At fifteen he ran away from home and traveled to California where he worked as a grape picker and auto mechanic.
* Gerald Ford also loved golf, but spectators had to watch carefully because the President was known for hitting people on the head with his wild shots.
* Ronald Reagan announced Chicago Cubs games for WHO radio in Des Moines. Later he became a famous movie and television actor.
* George Bush was the captain of the baseball team at Yale University.
1．The list is made here to entertain the readers with American presidents’ _______.
A．special hobbies B．outstanding achievements
C．fun facts D．political life
2．The President who liked playing cards was _________.
A．Franklin Pierce B．Andrew Jackson
C．John F. Kennedy D．Warren G. Harding
3．Lyndon Baines Johnson formed a habit of turning off lights at White House because _______.
A．he was afraid of electric lights B．he valued the taxpayers’ money
C．he ran away from home when young D．he used to work like workers
CDB
pieces beautifully．
erm idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate．Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots．
If Barack Obama's wife and kids thought they'd be getting his undivided attention during their long-awaited summer holiday, perhaps they should think again.
The US President kicked off his vacation by revealing that, in addition to endless games of tennis and golf, he plans to spend the week ploughing through five books, weighing in at an astonishing 2,300 pages. His summer reading list, unveiled(透露) by the White House, contains two heavyweight works of non–fiction and three novels.
On top of the president’s table is Hot, Flat and Crowded, by New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman. Subtitled "why we need a green revolution", it makes a leftish（左倾的） call to arms regarding the future of the planet.
Mr Obama's second choice is historian David McCullough's biography of John Adams, the often under-rated second US president, who was the subject of an award-winning HBO docu-drama（纪实剧）last year.
The novels include two crime thrillers: Richard Price's Lush Life, and The Way Home, a novel by George Pelecanos set in Washington, DC – which, much like Obama's best-selling autobiography（自传）, explores the relationship between a father and his son.
Completing the set is the novel Plainsong, by a little-known writer called Kent Haruf. Set in a small town on the Colorado plains, its existence on the reading list may reassure voters that Middle America has not been ignored by their commander-in-chief.
Publishers are keeping an eye on whether the famous "Obama bounce" – which has helped sales at the first family's favourite clothes stores, such as J Crew – will continue to apply to their troubled industry. The President's endorsement（认可） is said to have lifted sales of Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland about cricket in Holland and New York last year.
Given that President Obama has already spent a portion of his week so far playing golf, beating Michelle at tennis, and visiting friends, questions will inevitably(不可避免地) be asked about his ability to put any dent（挫伤） at all in the ambitious reading list.
To finish all five books, he would have to manage more than 300 pages every day – quite an "ask" when a small portion of his time must also be spent running the country.
57. What’s the function of the first paragraph?
| A. To give an example. | B. To introduce a topic. |
| C. To describe a hope. | D. To offer an argument. |
| A. Some people doubted if the president could finish his books. |
| B. The Way Home is a book which explores the relationship between a father and his son. |
| C. Lush life, set in Washington, is a novel written by Richard Price. |
| D. Thanks to Obama, sales of Netherland have been lifted. |
| A. John Adams. | B. Netherland. |
| C. Hot, Flat and Crowded. | D. Lush Life. |
| A. Obama’s Hobbies | B. Obama’s Holiday Plan |
| C. Obama’s Holiday Life | D. Obama’s Holiday Book List |