题目内容
As he _______ , he was surprised to see that the man had disappeared.
A.turned against | B.turned in | C.turned around | D.turned up |
C
解析试题分析:句意:当他转过身,他很吃惊看见那个人不见了。turn against转而反对;turn in上交;turn around转过身;turn up调大音量,出现。根据句意故选C。
考点:考查动词短语的用法。
点评:本题难度适中。动词短语是高考常考的知识点,主要考查短语的意义,需要考生能够分析句子的成分,正确理解句子的语言环境,进而做出正确的判断。这里是由turn和不同的介词或副词构成的短语。
即学即练:For some reason she didn't _______.
A. turn against B. turn in C. turn around D. turn up
解析:D。句意:由于某种原因,她没有来。
It was an afternoon Truman would never forget.
Rayburn and his friend were talking in the office before Truman arrived. The telephone rang. It was a call from the White House asking whether Vice-President Truman had arrived yet. No, Rayburn replied. The caller asked to have him telephone the White House as soon as he arrived.
Truman entered a minute later. He immediately called the White House. As he talked, his face became white. He put down the phone and raced out of the door to his car.
Truman arrived at the White House within minutes. An assistant took him to the president’s private living area. Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, was waiting for him there. “Harry,” she said, “the president is dead.” Truman was shocked. He asked Mrs. Roosevelt if there was anything he could do to help her. But her reply made clear to him that his own life had suddenly changed. “Is there anything we can do for you ?” Mrs. Roosevelt asked the new president, “You are the one in trouble now.”
Truman had been a surprise choice for vice-president at the Democratic Party nominating convention in nineteen forty-four. Delegates considered several other candidates before they chose him as Roosevelt’s running mate. That was at a time when presidential candidates did not make their own choices for vice-president.
Harry Truman lacked the fame,the rich family and the strong speech-making skills of Franklin Roosevelt.He was a much simpler man.He grew up in the Midwestern state of Missouri.Truman only studied through high school but took some nighttime law school classes.He worked for many years as a farmer and a small businessman,but without much success.
Truman had long been interested in politics.When he was almost forty,he finally won several low-level positions in his home state.By nineteen thirty-four,he was popular enough in Missouri to be nominated and elected to the United States Senate. And he won re-election six years later.
Most Americans, however, knew little about Harry Truman when he became president.They knew he had close ties to the Democratic Party political machine in his home state.But they had also heard that he was a very honest man.They could see that Truman had strongly supported President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.But they could not be sure what kind of president Truman would become.
At the center of all the action was Harry Truman.It was not long before he showed Americans and the world that he had the ability to be a good president.He was honest,strong and willing to make decisions.
【小题1】When Mrs. Roosevelt said”You are the one in trouble now”,she really meant that .
A.Truman’s life had suddenly changed |
B.Truman was at the center of all the action |
C.Truman was a surprise choice for vice-president |
D.Truman had close ties to the Democratic Party |
A.decided by delegates |
B.recommended by presidential candidates |
C.chosen by the Democratic Party |
D.elected by vice-president |
A.for ten years | B.before he was forty |
C.before 1943 | D.for two terms |
A.An Unforgettable Afternoon |
B.Vital Telephone Call Makes a Difference |
C.Truman Makes His Decisions |
D.Roosevelt’s Death Makes Truman President |
It was an afternoon Truman would never forget.
Rayburn and his friend were talking in the office before Truman arrived. The telephone rang. It was a call from the White House asking whether Vice-President Truman had arrived yet. No, Rayburn replied. The caller asked to have him telephone the White House as soon as he arrived.
Truman entered a minute later. He immediately called the White House. As he talked, his face became white. He put down the phone and raced out of the door to his car.
Truman arrived at the White House within minutes. An assistant took him to the president’s private living area. Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, was waiting for him there. “Harry,” she said, “the president is dead.” Truman was shocked. He asked Mrs. Roosevelt if there was anything he could do to help her. But her reply made clear to him that his own life had suddenly changed. “Is there anything we can do for you ?” Mrs. Roosevelt asked the new president, “You are the one in trouble now.”
Truman had been a surprise choice for vice-president at the Democratic Party nominating convention in nineteen forty-four. Delegates considered several other candidates before they chose him as Roosevelt’s running mate. That was at a time when presidential candidates did not make their own choices for vice-president.
Harry Truman lacked the fame,the rich family and the strong speech-making skills of Franklin Roosevelt.He was a much simpler man.He grew up in the Midwestern state of Missouri.Truman only studied through high school but took some nighttime law school classes.He worked for many years as a farmer and a small businessman,but without much success.
Truman had long been interested in politics.When he was almost forty,he finally won several low-level positions in his home state.By nineteen thirty-four,he was popular enough in Missouri to be nominated and elected to the United States Senate. And he won re-election six years later.
Most Americans, however, knew little about Harry Truman when he became president.They knew he had close ties to the Democratic Party political machine in his home state.But they had also heard that he was a very honest man.They could see that Truman had strongly supported President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.But they could not be sure what kind of president Truman would become.
At the center of all the action was Harry Truman.It was not long before he showed Americans and the world that he had the ability to be a good president.He was honest,strong and willing to make decisions.
1.When Mrs. Roosevelt said”You are the one in trouble now”,she really meant that .
A.Truman’s life had suddenly changed |
B.Truman was at the center of all the action |
C.Truman was a surprise choice for vice-president |
D.Truman had close ties to the Democratic Party |
2.According to the passage,of Truman’s day,the president’s running mate was .
A.decided by delegates |
B.recommended by presidential candidates |
C.chosen by the Democratic Party |
D.elected by vice-president |
3.Truman served as the U.S.Senator .
A.for ten years |
B.before he was forty |
C.before 1943 |
D.for two terms |
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A.An Unforgettable Afternoon |
B.Vital Telephone Call Makes a Difference |
C.Truman Makes His Decisions |
D.Roosevelt’s Death Makes Truman President |
My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I’d be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis(危机). Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges — those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.
I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed(显示) a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”
Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs — being a postman is another one I still desire — demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.
1..The writer applied for the job chiefly because _________.
A.he wanted to work in the centre of London |
B.he could no longer afford to live without one |
C.he was not interested in any other available job |
D.he had received some suitable training |
2..The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _________.
A.he often traveled underground |
B.he had written many poems |
C.he could deal with difficult situations |
D.he had worked in a company |
3..The length of his interview meant that _________.
A.he was not going to be offered the job |
B.he had not done well in the intelligence test |
C.he did not like the interviewer at all |
D.he had little work experience to talk about |
4..What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?
A.How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be. |
B.How difficult it is to be a poet. |
C.How unsuitable he was for the job. |
D.How badly he did in the interview. |
5..What’s the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?
A.He was very aggressive(有进取心的). |
B.He was unhappy with his job. |
C.He was quite inefficient. |
D.He was rather unsympathetic. |