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After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ‘You have to let me in.’”
Impressed—she was a National Merit(全国英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil—Yaledid, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for The Yale Daily News “and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said.
On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Ms. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it. ”
Ms. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ‘Don’t do this.’ This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism, her mother said

  1. 1.

    From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 we can infer that ______.

    1. A.
      Yale University was her last choice
    2. B.
      Yale must keep its promise to Marie
    3. C.
      Marie Colvin was confident of herself
    4. D.
      Marie Colvin was good at persuading
  2. 2.

    Marie Colvin’s story suggests some of the best qualities of being a journalist are ______.

    1. A.
      patience and confidence
    2. B.
      honesty and curiosity
    3. C.
      flexibility and creativity
    4. D.
      determination and courage
  3. 3.

    Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin’s life?
    a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.  
    b. She was admitted to Yale University.
    c. She studied in Brazil as an exchange student.
    d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.
    e. She began to take an interest in journalism

    1. A.
      d→e→c→a→b
    2. B.
      c→b→e→d→a
    3. C.
      e→d→c→b→a
    4. D.
      b→c→d→e→a
  4. 4.

    What can be the best title of the text?

    1. A.
      Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area
    2. B.
      Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case
    3. C.
      Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria
    4. D.
      Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest
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本文讲述了战地记者Marie Colvin的母亲在她遇难后回忆她生前的一些事情，反映了Marie Colvin坚定的意志，和对工作的热情。
1.推理判断题。根据第一段可知，他在回国后，别的学生都上了大学，但她并没有灰心，准备去Yale,可知她的这句话，表明了他的自信。
2.推理判断题。根据她妈妈后面的描述，她明知道呆在原地很危险，可她在没有完成任务前，并没有离开，可见她的意志坚定和勇敢的品质。而这些品质成就了一位优秀的记者。
3.排列顺序题。从文章的一开始就讲到她作为一个交换生回国了，说明c是最先发生的。于是答案就出来了。
4.概括标题。本文Marie Colvin的母亲在她遇难后回忆她生前的一些事情，故选C
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  1. A.
    challenge
  2. B.
    photograph
  3. C.
    greedy
  4. D.
    goods

There was once a farmer. His land was hilly and the soil was not the best. He had a cow that wasn’t giving much milk and he had chickens who were laying few eggs. The place looked run-down (破败的) and the barn and fences (篱笆) needed repair. The farmer and his wife felt dejected.
One stormy evening, a poorly-dressed man knocked on their door, asking if he could get shelter for the night. They shared the food that had been prepared, while they talked a great deal about the farm.
When the stranger left the following morning, he thanked the farmer and his wife and pulled a little bag of gold pieces out of his pocket. He said that maybe this would help them. He added that he’d come by next year with hopes of finding a revived farm.
After this, the farmer and his wife often talked about whether they should buy a more promising cow. Other times they considered whether they should buy chickens who laid more eggs. However, every conversation ended with the farmer trusting the farm would improve as he found himself fixing the barn and the fences, caring for the animals, preparing food for themselves and their animals.
The farmer beamed (眉开眼笑) when the stranger did come by again a year later. Everything looked so much better. The stranger asked, “What did you use the gold for?”
The farmer said, “We hid the gold under a kitchen tile (地砖) and, while we often thought of it, we never did think of anything we needed the gold for.”
Then the farmer added thoughtfully, “I do thank you, though, ever so much. You gave us what we really needed to keep going — you lifted our spirits.”
Saying that, the farmer removed the tile and cheerfully returned the gold to the stranger

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “dejected” in Paragraph 1 probably means “_____”

    1. A.
      kind and generous
    2. B.
      surprised and delighted
    3. C.
      disappointed and unhappy
    4. D.
      strong and fearless
  2. 2.

    One year later, the stranger visited the farmer to _____

    1. A.
      get his gold pieces back
    2. B.
      see if the farm had improved
    3. C.
      get shelter for the night
    4. D.
      give the farmer more money
  3. 3.

    From the passage, we can conclude that what the farmer really needed was _____

    1. A.
      land rich enough to farm on
    2. B.
      something to keep their spirits up
    3. C.
      scientific knowledge of agriculture
    4. D.
      money to improve his farm

A South African farmer is receiving phone calls from his sheep after equipping them with cell phones to keep tabs on the flock amid recent livestock thefts, according to local press Wednesday.
When the sheep call, it is always bad news for farmer Erard Louw of the Cape Town suburbs, as the phones around their necks are only set to switch on when the sheep start running, a sign that thieves have cut through the fences.
"As they run it gives me a phone call and says 'Sheep One' or 'Sheep Two' and so on, so at least I know where to start looking because the farm is 750 hectares (1,850 acres)," Louw told the Cape Times daily.
Louw attached the phone-like security device to the collars of four sheep in separate flocks after thieves sneaked in and stole 27 sheep and 13 lambs a couple of weeks ago, driving Louw to rack his brains for ways to protect his animals.
He said there was no use calling nearby police, as they were stationed too far away and in his experience they either lacked an available car or the vehicle was out of fuel or missing tyres -- also the work of thieves.
According to Louw, the cell phones have already proved their worth, with one sheep-snatcher caught thanks to the device.
Still, with theft attempts currently at their peak, given long winter nights and early nightfall, a few sheep-robbers managed to get away in spite of the device.
"The phone did start ringing that night and I went out," he said, but added that he was too late

  1. 1.

    Why did Erard Louw attach the phone-like device to the sheep he raises?

    1. A.
      Because he thought it was fun to do
    2. B.
      Because the police there didn’t care about animals
    3. C.
      Because he liked hi-tech very much
    4. D.
      Because he wanted to protect them against thieves
  2. 2.

    What does the underlined expression in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

    1. A.
      Try very hard to remember or think of something
    2. B.
      Have a headache
    3. C.
      Make the brain bigger
    4. D.
      Shake the brain from side to side
  3. 3.

    You can most probably read this passage______.

    1. A.
      in a book
    2. B.
      in a dictionary
    3. C.
      in a newspaper
    4. D.
      in a novel

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity，” said the American talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I’ ve never watched her show, but when a self-made billionaire gives life advice it’ s probably worth listening to.
Her point is that blind luck is very rare. You may have to be lucky to find a good job these days but that does not mean you should sit at home waiting for the opportunity to come to you. If you’ re a Chinese，you may already be familiar with the tale of a farmer waiting by a tree stump (树桩) for a rabbit to run out and break its neck.
A book by the UK psychologist Richard Wiseman, called The Luck Factor, argues we can all make ourselves luckier. It’ s not about going to a temple to burn some incense (香) in hopes that the gods will give you good fortune; it’ s practical advice you can follow each day.
Wiseman conducted an experiment as part of his studies. First he divided volunteers into two groups：those who said they were lucky in life and those who said they were not. He gave everyone a newspaper and asked them to look through it to count how many photographs it had inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs while the lucky people took just seconds. Why? On the second page of the newspaper, a command, “Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper，” was written in big letters. The unlucky people mostly did not  spot the message.
It’s easy to compare this situation to a young person looking for jobs in a local paper. They might search so hard for one type of position that they miss an even better opportunity. People who are “lucky”， in fact, keep an open mind and don’t go through the same routine every day.
I first came to China in 2002 when it was considered a rather strange thing to do. Like many foreigners，my plan was to teach English for one year. Seven years later, and still here, I’ ve had many great opportunities such as writing for newspapers and magazines. I did not dream these would have been possible. I’ ve also never been sick, had an accident, got into a fight or had problems with the police. Coincidence(巧合)? After reading about Professor Wiseman’ s studies I think not.
As Wiseman advises, I usually trust my own judgment. Your friends and parents may give you advice based on rational (理性)thinking, but it’s important to consider how you feel about each choice you make. Your feeling acts as a warning for a potential （潜在）problem.
Finally, try to turn bad luck into good. Even if you do fall down and break a leg, the time spent at home can be used wisely to study English

  1. 1.

    Which of the following proverbs most agrees with the writer’ s point?

    1. A.
      Make the best of a bad job
    2. B.
      Rome was not built in a day
    3. C.
      All is not gold that glitters
    4. D.
      A good heart conquers ill fortune
  2. 2.

    What do you know about Oprah Winfrey?

    1. A.
      She became famous through her family background
    2. B.
      She was very lucky and seldom suffered setbacks （挫折）in her life
    3. C.
      She is a British talk show host
    4. D.
      She became successful by her own effort
  3. 3.

    The writer quoted（引用） the Chinese tale of a farmer in order to show________

    1. A.
      luck is in your own hand
    2. B.
      bad luck can turn into good
    3. C.
      you should not sit at home waiting for the opportunity to come to you
    4. D.
      man can conquer nature
  4. 4.

    From the experiment Wiseman drew the conclusion that________

    1. A.
      lucky people are quick-minded
    2. B.
      unlucky people are slow to read
    3. C.
      lucky people often have an open mind
    4. D.
      unlucky people are more creative
  5. 5.

    The underlined word “spot” is the closest in meaning to“________”．

    1. A.
      discover
    2. B.
      mark
    3. C.
      make
    4. D.
      receive

The modern Olympic Games, founded in 1896, began as contests between individuals, rather than among nations, with the hope of promoting world peace through sportsmanship. In the beginning, the games were open only to amateurs. An amateur is a person whose involvement in an activity---from sports to science or the arts---is purely for pleasure. Amateurs, whatever their contributions to a field, expect to receive no form of compensation ; professionals, in contrast, perform their work in order to earn a living.
From the perspective of many athletes, however, the Olympic playing field has been far from level. Restricting the Olympics to amateurs has precluded（妨碍） the participation of many who could not afford to be unpaid. Countries have always desired to send their best athletes, not their wealthiest ones, to the Olympic Games.
A slender and imprecise line separates what we call “financial support” from “earning money.” Do athletes “earn money” if they are reimbursed（补偿） for travel expenses? What if they are paid for time lost at work or if they accept free clothing from a manufacturer or if they teach sports for a living? The runner Eric Liddell was the son of poor missionaries; in 1924 the British Olympic Committee financed his trip to the Olympics, where he won a gold and a bronze medal. College scholarships and support from the United States Olympic Committee made it possible for American track stars Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph and speed skater Dan Jansen to train and compete. When the Soviet Union and its allies joined the games in 1952, the definition of amateur became still muddier. Their athletes did not have to balance jobs and training because as citizens in communist regimes, their government financial support was not considered payment for jobs.
In 1971 the International Olympic Committee(IOC) removed the word amateur from the rules, making it easier for athletes to find the support necessary to train and compete. In 1986 the IOC allowed professional athletes into the games.
There are those who regret the disappearance of amateurism from the Olympic Games. For them the games lost something special when they became just another way for athletes to earn money. Others say that the designation of amateurism was always questionable; they argue that all competitors receive so much financial support as to make them paid professionals. Most agree, however, that the debate over what constitutes an “amateur” will continue for a long time

  1. 1.

    One might infer that __________

    1. A.
      developing Olympic-level skills in athletes is costly
    2. B.
      professional athletes are mostly interested in financial rewards
    3. C.
      amateurs does not expect to earn money at the sport that is played
    4. D.
      amateurs have a better attitude than professionals do
  2. 2.

    The statement “the Olympic playing field has been far from level” means that__________

    1. A.
      the ground the athletes played on was in bad condition
    2. B.
      the poorer players were given some advantages
    3. C.
      the rules did not work the same way for everyone
    4. D.
      amateurs were inferior to the professionals in many ways
  3. 3.

    The financial support given to athletes by the Soviet government can best be compared to _________

    1. A.
      a gift received on a special occasion, such as a birthday
    2. B.
      money received from a winning lottery ticket
    3. C.
      an allowance paid to a child
    4. D.
      money from charity organization
  4. 4.

    One can conclude that the Olympic Organizing Committee ____________

    1. A.
      has held firm to its original vision of the Olympic games
    2. B.
      has struggled with the definition of amateur over the years
    3. C.
      regards itself as an organization for professional athletes only
    4. D.
      did nothing but stop allowing communists to participate

Nurses in this hospital try their best to make patients feel at _____


  1. A.
    pleasure
  2. B.
    peace
  3. C.
    comfort
  4. D.
    Ease

Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example— were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century

  1. 1.

    How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?

    1. A.
      Twain was more willing to deal with racism
    2. B.
      Twain’s attack on racism was much less open
    3. C.
      Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots
    4. D.
      Twain was openly concerned with racism
  2. 2.

    Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its ______

    1. A.
      target readers at the bottom
    2. B.
      anti-slavery attitude
    3. C.
      rather impolite language
    4. D.
      frequent use of “nigger”
  3. 3.

    What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author?

    1. A.
      Jim’s search for his family was described in detail
    2. B.
      The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels
    3. C.
      Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture
    4. D.
      Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent
  4. 4.

    The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that ______

    1. A.
      slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
    2. B.
      slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking
    3. C.
      blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up
    4. D.
      blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
  5. 5.

    What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?

    1. A.
      The attacks
    2. B.
      Slavery and prejudice
    3. C.
      White men
    4. D.
      The shows
  6. 6.

    What does the author mainly argue for?

    1. A.
      Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism
    2. B.
      Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln
    3. C.
      Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds
    4. D.
      Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view

Roger Conner is a modern­-day Horatio Alger hero. Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop. He has become the owner of a florist company whose sales are well over $100 000 a year.
One day when Roger was only twelve, he stopped at a local flower shop. He asked the owner if he could work for him, without pay, in order to learn the business. Roger started working every day after school and on weekends. After two years on the job, he finally asked for a small salary. The owners told him he “wasn't good enough to be paid.” So he quit, and found a paying job at another local flower shop. He worked hard there, but after six months they laid him off because business was slow.
Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement in his town. He started his business with only sixty­-five dollars. He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and knocked the shelves out. This turned them into coolers for his fresh­-cut flowers. His business grew rapidly as he built up a reputation for top quality and fine service.
In 1977, Roger bought out the flower store where he had worked without pay for over two years. The people who said he “wasn’t good enough to be paid” were astonished to find that they were being taken over by a teenager. He had plans to renovate (振兴) the whole store.
One of the reasons the owners sold out to Roger was that the store wasn't doing well. But after Roger took over ownership and redid the store, business started booming. In fact, business was so good that after one year, he celebrated by buying out the other store where he had worked. Roger then combined both stores and moved to a location in the center of his town.
The new store has 2 000 square feet and seven employees. And he did it all before he reached the age of twenty

  1. 1.

    The author is wants to show us that people who want to succeed in business should ________

    1. A.
      work without pay
    2. B.
      own a flower shop
    3. C.
      work hard and never give up
    4. D.
      work as teenagers
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      He worked for two years without pay
    2. B.
      He needed luck to be successful
    3. C.
      He opened his first flower business in a basement
    4. D.
      He became successful before the age of twenty
  3. 3.

    The passage may be a ________

    1. A.
      newspaper report
    2. B.
      humorous story
    3. C.
      television play
    4. D.
      scientific story
  4. 4.

    The underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably means ________

    1. A.
      employed him
    2. B.
      didn’t let him work there
    3. C.
      paid him money
    4. D.
      were proud of him
  5. 5.

    From the passage, a “Horatio Alger hero” may be the kind of person who________

    1. A.
      works hard in the flower business
    2. B.
      was born into a rich family
    3. C.
      starts out poor and becomes rich
    4. D.
      becomes famous as a result of good luck

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