题目内容
He was found guilty of armed robbery, and ___ to 3 years in prison.
A. praised B. remembered C. condemned D. honored
C
According to an old story, a farmer once found that a bag of corn had been stolen from his house. He went to the judge and told him about his loss. The judge ordered all the people of the farm to come before him. He took a number of sticks of equal length and gave one stick to each man.
He then said, “Come before me again tomorrow. I shall then know which of you is the thief because the stick given to the thief will be one inch longer than the others.”
The thief was afraid of being found out, and so he cut an inch off his stick. The next day the thief’s stick was found to be one inch shorter than any of the others. In this way the thief was found out, and was at once taken away to prison.
【小题1】The judge gave each man a stick _______.
| A．to change back the farmer’s corn |
| B．to beat the thief |
| C．as a tool to find out the thief |
| D．so as to play a game together |
| A．he was found out |
| B．the judge couldn’t catch him |
| C．his stick had an equal length with the others’ |
| D．his stick wouldn’t be any longer |
| A．the thief cut the stick off |
| B．the thief cut an inch off the stick |
| C．the stick grow an inch longer |
| D．the other’s sticks would become one inch shorter |
Have you listened to music on an iPod? Used a computer at home? Those are just two of the ways your life was touched by the work of Steve Jobs.
Jobs, one founder of Apple Computers, died on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. He had been fighting with cancer since 2004.
Steven Jobs was born in Los Altos, California. He and his childhood friend, Steve Wozniak, designed and built the first Apple computer in his parents’ garage in the 1970s. The Apple II, built when Jobs was just 21 years old, was the first personal computer to be widely sold to the public.
Steven Jobs didn’t stop there. He went on to invent more devices (设备) that allowed people to bring their own creativity to computing: the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. People found his products beautiful and easy to use.
Jobs also changed the music and film industries. He started Pixar, a film production company in 1986. Toy Story was the world’s first computer-animated feature film (电脑动画电影).
“Steve was among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, confident enough to believe he could change the world, and clever enough to do it,” said President Barack Obama. “By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only easy to reach, but fun ... And there may be no greater praise to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his death on a device he invented.”
All around the world, people are talking about the effects that Jobs’ creations have had. By creating products that surprised people, he changed the way people worked and lived their everyday lives.
【小题1】Which of the following about Steve Jobs is NOT true?
| A．He was born in California in 1955. |
| B．He built the Apple II in 1970. |
| C．He set up a film production company at 31. |
| D．He was found to suffer from cancer at 49. |
| A．inventors | B．businessmen | C．producers | D．founders |
| A．his products are widely used all over the world |
| B．his products are thought to be beautiful and easy to use |
| C．people all over the world are sad at his death |
| D．people learned about his death from his products |
| A．building the first personal computer |
| B．making computer-animated feature films |
| C．developing the music industry |
| D．creating surprising products |