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A tall figure appeared from the dark door of the tent. It was a smoking young man about twenty three or four. He had an almost black face, though smooth. His moustache was black with curled points. There was an unusual force in his face, and in his daring rolling eyes. cef
  Rebecca still stood hesitating like a swimmer about to make his dive, hardly knowing whether to return or move forward.
"Hi, my beauty, what can I do for you?" said he, approaching. Realizing that she was quite at a loss, the man spoke in a gentle voice, "Never mind. I am Mr. Thackeray. Have you come to see me or my mother?"
  This scene differed greatly from what Rebecca had expected. She had dreamed of an aged and dignified(威严的) face. She told herself to be calm and answered "I came to see your mother, sir."
  "I am afraid you cannot see her-she is ill in bed," replied the representative of the house; for this was Mr. Alee Thackeray, the only son of the noble family. "What is the business you wish to see her about?"
  "It isn't business-it is-I can hardly say what!"
  "Pleasure?"
  "Oh no. Why, sir, if I tell you, it will seem..."
  Rebecca's sense of a certain ridicule(奚落,讥笑) was now so obvious and strong that, despite her general discomfort at being here, her rosy lips curved(弯曲) towards a smile, much to the attraction of the young man.
  "It is so foolish", she murmured. "I fear I can't tell you!"
  "Never mind; I like foolish things. Try again, my dear," said he kindly.
  "Mother told me to come," Rebecca continued; "and, indeed, I was in the mind to do so myself. But I did not expect it would turn out like this. I came…sir, I came to tell you that we are of the same family as you."
  "Ho Ho! Poor relations?"
  "Yes."
  "Rossetti?"
  "No. Thackeray."
  "Ay, ay; I mean Thackeray."
  "Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are Thackeray. The local scholars hold the view that we are, and...and we have an old seal and a silver spoon marked with the same castle as yours. So mother said we ought to make ourselves known to you, as we've lost our horse by a bad accident. We can hardly make a living."
"It’s very kind of your mother, I'm sure." Alec looked at Rebecca as he spoke, in a way that made her uneasy. "And so, my pretty girl, you've come on a friendly visit to us, as relations?"
  "I suppose I have," looking less confident and uncomfortable again.
"Well, there's no harm in it. I mean it doesn’t hurt to come and make yourself known to me. Where do you live? What are you?" …

  1. 1.

    While meeting with Alec, Rebecca feels _______during the whole course

    1. A.
      nervous and uneasy
    2. B.
      excited and hopeful
    3. C.
      amazed and comfortable
    4. D.
      pleased but embarrassed
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is suitable to describe Rebecca’s impression of Alec?

    1. A.
      unfriendly and ta lkative
    2. B.
      forceful and daring
    3. C.
      gentle and reliable
    4. D.
      older than expected
  3. 3.

    What is Rebecca’s real purpose of making this visit?

    1. A.
      To see Alec himself
    2. B.
      To see Alec's mother
    3. C.
      To confirm that they are of the same family
    4. D.
      To make known their relationship and seek help
  4. 4.

    From the passage, we can conclude that Alec appears quite friendly to Rebecca largely because __________

    1. A.
      Rebecca is his distant relation
    2. B.
      Rebecca looks polite to him
    3. C.
      Rebecca is a pretty girl
    4. D.
      Rebecca looks ridiculous
ABDD
试题分析 一个年轻女子前来拜访,与这家攀亲戚,来寻求帮助。
1.A 细节题。根据第二段Rebecca still stood hesitating like a swimmer about to make his dive, hardly knowing whether to return or move forward.得知他很犹豫,故选A项。
2.B细节题。通过第一段There was an unusual force in his face, and in his daring rolling eyes得知应选 B项。
3.D细节题。根据倒数第四段So mother said we ought to make ourselves known to you, as we've lost our horse by a bad accident. We can hardly make a living.得知应选D项。
4.D细节题。根据最后一段there's no harm in it. I mean it doesn’t hurt to come and make yourself known to me得出应选 D项。
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One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2,000 of its residents are foxes. As native as the royal family, they fled the city about centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in. But now that the environment is cleaner, the foxes have come home, one of the many wild animals that have moved into urban areas around the world.
Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities. Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s pollution-control efforts. Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbs. In addition, urban wildlife refuges (避难处) have been created. The Greater London Council last year spent $750, 000 to buy land and build 10 permanent wildlife refuges in the city. Over 1,000 volunteers have donated money and cleared rubble from abandoned spots. One evening last year a fox was seen on Westminster Bridge looking up at Big Ben.
  For peregrine falcons (游隼), cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings (悬崖栖息地). By 1970 the birds had died out east of the Mississippi because the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life. That year, scientist Tom Cade of Cornell University began raising the birds for release in cities, for cities afforded abundant food.
  Cities can attract wild animals without turning them harmful. The trick is to create habitats where they can be self-sufficient but still be seen and appreciated. Such habitats can even be functional. In San Francisco, the local government is testing different kinds of rainwater control basins to see not only which ones retain (保持) the cleanest water but which will attract the most birds

  1. 1.

    The first paragraph suggests that______.

    1. A.
      environment is the key to wildlife
    2. B.
      tour books are not always a reliable source of information
    3. C.
      London is a city of fox
    4. D.
      foxes are highly adaptable to environment
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT a reason that wildlife is returning to the cities?

    1. A.
      Food is plentiful in the cities
    2. B.
      Wildlife is appreciated in the cities
    3. C.
      Wildlife refuges have been built in the cities
    4. D.
      Air and water quality has improved in the cities
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from the passage that______.

    1. A.
      Londoners are putting more and more wild animals into their zoos
    2. B.
      Londoners are happy to see wild animals return to their city
    3. C.
      Londoners are trying to move wild animals back to the countryside
    4. D.
      Londoners have welcomed the wild birds, but found foxes a problem
  4. 4.

    What is the passage mainly about?

    1. A.
      Wildlife returning to large cities
    2. B.
      Foxes returning to London
    3. C.
      Wild animals living in zoos
    4. D.
      A survey of wildlife in New York

Many ESL (English as a Second Language) students in the United States enroll in (注册学习) academic preparation programs and are in their late teens or early twenties. This is often a time when students are looking back on childhood in a different way. Their childhood memories and their viewpoint on those memories can be very useful for the production of wonderfully creative writing.
For this project, the students began in class by closing their eyes and trying to return to their childhood years in order to bring early memories to their mind. After imagining for a few minutes, they began to tell each other what they remembered about those years and tried to describe a particular incident that stood out in their memories.
That evening they wrote in their journals about the incident, embellishing (润饰) the story as much as possible. The next day, they read the story to a different partner and got feedback (反馈意见). The partner’s job was to: ask more questions to bring back the writer’s memory; help the writer make sure that past tense verbs were used correctly, focusing on the difference between those things that were still true and needed present tense and those things that belonged specifically to the past. Two days later, students made necessary changes or additions and turned in a typed copy of their story. I then made my own comments about their work and asked them to revise their work. The third draft (稿子) produced some very good work

  1. 1.

    The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to _____

    1. A.
      show readers the difficulty he had in his work
    2. B.
      explain his idea of English learning
    3. C.
      show readers how ESL students live and study
    4. D.
      tell readers how he taught his ESL students to write
  2. 2.

    What did the author ask his students to write about?

    1. A.
      What they saw around them
    2. B.
      Their predictions for the future
    3. C.
      Their childhood memories
    4. D.
      Their opinions of the United States
  3. 3.

    In what order do the students write their compositions according to the passage?
    a. share their writing with their classmates
    b. exchange their memories
    c. write their stories
    d. ask for others’ feedback
    e.  make some changes to their compositions and have them typed
    f.  corrected by the teacher
    g.  recall their stories

    1. A.
      g-b-c-a-d-e-f
    2. B.
      g-c-a-d-b-f-e
    3. C.
      e-f-b-c-a-g-d
    4. D.
      d-e-f-g-a-c-b
  4. 4.

    A partner may help do the following things EXCEPT _____

    1. A.
      make the memory more complete
    2. B.
      find spelling mistakes
    3. C.
      check the tense of the verbs
    4. D.
      give some feedback

People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well. They take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care. However, dogs without owners to care for lead a different kind of life. The expression, to lead a dog’s life, describes a person who has an unhappy existence.
Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs. They say that to be successful, a person has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.
Still, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.
Some people are compared to dogs in bad ways. People who are unkind or uncaring can be described meaner than a junkyard dog. Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property. However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite.
Husbands and wives use this doghouse term when they are angry at each other. For example, a woman might get angry at her husband for coming home late or forgetting their wedding anniversary. She might tell him that he is in the doghouse. She may not treat him nicely until he apologizes. However, the husband may decide that it is best to leave things alone and not create more problems. He might decide to let sleeping dogs lie.
Dog expressions also are used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs

  1. 1.

    To achieve success, you must ______

    1. A.
      feel dog-tired
    2. B.
      work like a dog
    3. C.
      become sick as a dog
    4. D.
      be meaner than a junkyard dog
  2. 2.

    To everyone’s surprise, Jack has been employed by a big company, about which we can say, “_______”

    1. A.
      Every dog has its day
    2. B.
      Jack works like a dog
    3. C.
      His bark is worse than his bite
    4. D.
      Jack really lives in a dog-eat-dog world
  3. 3.

    What kind of people live a difficult life?

    1. A.
      Those who are in the doghouse
    2. B.
      Those who have the dog days
    3. C.
      Those who lead a dog’s life
    4. D.
      Those whose bark is worse than his bite
  4. 4.

    What does the article mainly talk about?

    1. A.
      Dogs’ life in America
    2. B.
      How to treat dogs well
    3. C.
      Why Americans love dogs
    4. D.
      Expressions with the word “dog”

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It is not necessary for most of these students to be at the computing room in the middle of the night. What they are working belong to no assignments. They remain there because they desire to be — they can not resist the attraction of the computers.
Furthermore, they are in groups instead of being alone. There are hackers at computing rooms all over the country. In the unimaginable way, they focus on nothing but computer. They escape from schooling and live beyond friendship; they might have difficulty being employed, choosing to travel from one computing room to another. They may even give up personal health.
“There is one hacker in my memory. We actually had to lift him away from his chair to feed him and arrange him to rest and sleep. We truly worried about his health,” says a computing science professor at California University.
Professors of computer science are nowadays paying more attention to this hacker phenomenon and are on the watch for future hackers and more and more severe computer addicts. They believe firmly that hackers are not simply resulted from the close relationship with a machine. It is the result of social relationship with the attractive thinking machines, which are becoming nearly universal

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the passage that those at the computing room in the middle of the night are     

    1. A.
      students working on a program
    2. B.
      students using computers to amuse themselves
    3. C.
      hard-working computer science majors
    4. D.
      students deeply fascinated by the computer
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT true of those young computer “hackers”?

    1. A.
      Most of them are top students majoring in computer programming
    2. B.
      For them, computer programming is the only purpose for their life
    3. C.
      They can stay with the computer at the computing room for nearly two days
    4. D.
      Their love for the computer is so deep that they want to be near their machines even when they sleep
  3. 3.

    It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that ______

    1. A.
      the hacker phenomenon exists only at university computing rooms
    2. B.
      it is not very easy for the “hackers” to find friends or jobs
    3. C.
      university computing rooms are expecting outstanding programmers out of the “hackers”
    4. D.
      the hacker phenomenon is partly due to the lack of the computing rooms
  4. 4.

    According to professors of computer science, the hacker phenomenon can be described as     

    1. A.
      positive
    2. B.
      disgusting
    3. C.
      worrying
    4. D.
      admiring
  5. 5.

    Which of the following may be the most appropriate title for the passage?

    1. A.
      The Charm of Computer Science
    2. B.
      A New Type of Electronic Toys
    3. C.
      Future Computer Programmers
    4. D.
      Computer Addicts

The law has a great many rules, showing when and how far a man is to be punished, or if he should be made to hand over money or property to his neighbors, and so on. These rules are contained in books. A lawyer learns them mainly by reading books.
He begins by doing little else than reading, and after he has prepared himself by three years’ study, still, he has to, almost every day, read more about some new questions which he has to answer.
The power to use books, then, is a special skill which a would-be lawyer ought to possess. He ought to have enough flexibility(灵活性)to make it easy for him to collect ideas from printed words. He ought to have some readiness to find what a book contains, and something of an instinct(直觉)for where to look for what he wants.
But although this is the power which he will first feel in need of, it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law to recite it; he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has learned in real life. His business is to try cases in court and to advise people what to do in order to keep out or get out of trouble

  1. 1.

    The first thing a law student has to do is to _______

    1. A.
      read books
    2. B.
      hand over money
    3. C.
      practice law
    4. D.
      answer questions
  2. 2.

    The major business of a lawyer is ________

    1. A.
      to discuss the material he has read
    2. B.
      to advise people who have law problems
    3. C.
      to learn about real life
    4. D.
      to study the law
  3. 3.

    What is the most important to a lawyer?

    1. A.
      To possess a lot of books
    2. B.
      To have enough flexibility when collecting ideas from printed words
    3. C.
      To be able to quickly find out what a book contains
    4. D.
      To be able to use his book knowledge in the right way in his future business
  4. 4.

    According to the passage, a good lawyer should know how to ________

    1. A.
      understand and use what he reads
    2. B.
      be effective in everything
    3. C.
      collect ideas from different sources
    4. D.
      be effective in court

When an official at the U. S. Open Pocket Pool(台球)Championship saw a 9-year-old girl playing at one of the tournament tables, he told her that spectators(观众)were not allowed to play. But much to his surprise, the girl was actually a competitor. That was nine years ago, and today, with five U. S. Open Women’s titles behind her and a recently won world championship, no one is likely to mistake Jean Balukas for a spectator again.
It doesn’t seem too surprising that Jean became caught up in pool——her father owns a pool hall within walking distance of the family’s home in Brooklyn. When she was just tall enough to see over the table, she fell in love with the game soon. Five years later Jean was ready to enter her first U. S. Open. She still remembers the letter the officials sent her reminding her that she wouldn’t be allowed to stand on a box to play.

As Jean improved, she found it increasingly difficult to play games at her father’s pool hall. “If I’d beat one of the guys, his friends would laugh at them about losing to me,” she says. Now Jean comes to the hall only weeks before a tournament when she plays Johnny Goon, her father’s pool manager.
That Johnny can beat her shows the gap that now exists in pool — as in other sports — between the top men and women competitors. “I’m supposedly the top woman player, but I’d have a hard time beating the number 50 man,” says Jean. “If I was a boy and played pool, I’d be a nobody.”
Jean thinks that women pool players still have a long way to go because pool has been a man’s game for so long. “When they think of pool players, people have this picture in their head of gambling(赌博) and smoke,” she says.
Jean won four of the seven games in these two years. She was as surprised as anyone else at her performance, even though she was a New York City tennis champion and center for her high-school basketball team. Jean does not take full credit for her achievements, saying, “I think what I have in sports is a gift from God, and that’s why I can get out there and do so well.”

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the first passage that Jean Balukas_____

    1. A.
      had become well-known at the age of 9
    2. B.
      had achieved great fame at the age of 18
    3. C.
      was often asked to play with men players
    4. D.
      was refused to play in the U. S. Open for her young age
  2. 2.

    The letter Jean received before her first U. S. Open_____

    1. A.
      told her to arrive in time for the game
    2. B.
      showed people’s doubt about her ability
    3. C.
      told her about the basic rules of the game
    4. D.
      invited her to compete in the U. S. Open
  3. 3.

    Jean Balukas believed that women pool players_____

    1. A.
      fall far behind men players
    2. B.
      aren’t suitable for a man’s game
    3. C.
      are impossible to beat any man player
    4. D.
      have a bad reputation(名声) for gambling and smoking
  4. 4.

    By saying the underlined words in the last paragraph Jean meant that _____

    1. A.
      women players had a long way to go
    2. B.
      she wouldn’t stop before her great achievement
    3. C.
      she had much confidence in the game
    4. D.
      she achieved her success because of her born gift

When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standards-based learning was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers.
For her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges, she’s been named national teacher of the year.
Principal Waynes Kettler said he’s worked with many outstanding teachers in his 22 years as an educator, but Peterson is “just that one step above anybody I’ve ever worked with before.”
Kettler and others at Monte Cristo Elementary School talk about the ways she has introduced the learning from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the lack of money for new music.
When students were reading S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders in their regular classroom, Peterson helped them write a 30-minute play with scenes from the book. Then they chose three Broadway tunes that focused on race, equality and social justice, the themes of the book. Peterson composed two other songs herself after classroom discussions about the play and the book.
The honor means a lot to residents of Granite Falls. It’s inspiring to know that people from small towns can even win national honors.
As national teacher of the year, Peterson will spend the next year outside the classroom, as a national and international spokeswoman for education.
Not surpassingly, she is a big believe in the value of acts education. She said it’s essential for schools to offer classes such as act or music and physical education because for some kids one of those subjects is the only thing that motivates them to come back to school day after day

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “daunting” in Paragraph 1 most probably means ______.

    1. A.
      discouraging
    2. B.
      interesting
    3. C.
      creative
    4. D.
      unbearable
  2. 2.

    When Peterson began her teaching career,______.

    1. A.
      music was a focus of learning in most schools
    2. B.
      the environment was favorable to music teaching
    3. C.
      the school lacked teaching facilities for music
    4. D.
      financial support for music programs was unavailable
  3. 3.

    What is the most important reason that Peterson won the award?

    1. A.
      She concerned herself with current social problems
    2. B.
      She motivated students to learn music with her creativity
    3. C.
      She has taught music at the elementary school for 22 years
    4. D.
      She made great efforts to arouse students’ interest in literature
  4. 4.

    Which of the following is an example of Peterson’s way of teaching music?

    1. A.
      She wrote plays on themes of race, equality and social justice
    2. B.
      She made use of the contents of other classes in her teaching
    3. C.
      She organized classroom discussions of Broadway tunes
    4. D.
      She helped students compose songs by themselves
  5. 5.

    In Peterson’s opinion,______.

    1. A.
      art, music and PE classes are all important
    2. B.
      more subjects should be offered to students
    3. C.
      students should be motivated to attend art classes
    4. D.
      arts education is more important than other subjects
  6. 6.

    It can be inferred from the text that ______.

    1. A.
      Peterson’s honor was a surprise for the local people
    2. B.
      Peterson’s art classes attracted students back to school
    3. C.
      Peterson aroused the local residents’ passion for music
    4. D.
      Peterson will change her profession next year

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