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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

The other day I talked to a stranger on the bus. When he found out that I was from ________ , he told me he had a good friend who lived there and he wondered if, by any chance, I________ to know him. At the moment I thought he might be joking, but I could ________ from the expression on his face that he was ________ . I felt like saying that it was impossible to all the millions of people in Chicago I could have ________ with his friend. But instead, I just ________ and told him that Chicago was a very big city. He _________, and I thought he was going to ________ talking about the subject. But I was ________ . He was silent for a few minutes, and then he began to tell me about his friend.

He told me that his friend's main ________ in life seemed to be playing tennis. He said he was an excellent tennis player, and that he ________ had his own tennis court(网球场). He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools, ________ he only knew two people who had private tennis courts. I told him I knew several people having private tennis courts, including my brother who was a doctor in California---and, in fact, ________ my next door neighbor in Chicago. He said that maybe there were ________ private courts in the country than he realized, but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me where my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence(巧合) ________ his friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year, and he stayed next door to a doctor who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my ________ had gone to Sacramento last summer and had rented (租用) the house ________ my brother's. For a moment, we ________ at each other, but we did not say anything.

"Would your friend's name happened to be Roland Dickwood?" I asked finally. He laughed and said, "Yes. Would your ________ name happened to be Dr Ray Hunter?" It was my ________ to laugh. "Yes, "I replied.

1.A. Chicago B. a city C. Sacramento D. California

2.A. wanted B. happened C. went D. had

3.A. speak B. watch C. see D. tell

4.A. serious B. anxious C. friendly D. gentle

5.A. talked B. worked C. met D. lived

6.A. smiled B. sat C. thought D. talked

7.A. rose B. nodded C. smiled D. agreed

8.A. stop B. begin C. continue D. change

9.A. right B. curious C. wrong D. foolish

10.A. habit B. interest C. duty D. belief

11.A. once B. exactly C. even D. almost

12.A. for B. or C. so D. but

13.A. same B. as C. also D. well

14.A. some B. no C. more D. fewer

15.A. if B. because C. while D. when

16.A. brother’s friend B. brother C. friend D. next-door neighbor

17.A. far from B. next to C. near D. behind

18.A. stared B. talked C. laughed D. shouted

19.A. friend's B. brother's C. neighbor's D. court's

20.A. chance B. time C. turn D. moment

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。(选 E 涂AB, 选 F 涂CD,选G涂AC)

Being a Volunteer

What can you do to help people? The answer is -- to be a volunteer! 1.

● Help yourself by helping others

When you volunteer to help others, you are helping yourself. 2. Lots of people really enjoy volunteering. Doing volunteer work means one important thing: You make a difference in the world. So where do you start? 3.

● Things to do with family members

Volunteering is a great way to have fun with your family. Talk to your parents, brothers, or sisters and see what they might be interested in. Find something you all agree on. Here are some ideas for things you can do as a family like cleaning up a park and planting trees or flowers in your local community.

● Invent your own opportunity

4. You can make and sell products, and donate the money to charity. Volunteering gives kids a taste of responsibility, Volunteering can also help kids learn important things about themselves — like what kinds of things they’re best at. A volunteer job can even help some kids decide what they want to do when they grow up. 5. Make a plan to start volunteering today!

A. School is a good place to start if you are looking for volunteer ideas. Ask a teacher for ideas.

B. Volunteering means to spend time helping others,

C. If you are upset, doing something can be a great way to calm yourself down,

D. Why not come?

E. So what are you waiting for?

F. Kids can come up with their own ways to raise money or provide needed services,

G. Clean up a school or other public buildings.

When I was nine years old, I loved to go fishing with my dad. But the only thing that wasn’t very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn’t catch anything. I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why. He always answered, “Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish.” I remember being even more upset then because, “I’m not a fish!” I didn’t know how to think like a fish. Besides, I reasoned, how could what I think influence what a fish does?

As I got a little older I began to understand what my dad really meant. So, I read some books on fish. And I even joined the local fishing club and started attending the monthly meetings. I learned that a fish is a cold-blooded animal and therefore is very sensitive to water temperature. That is why fish prefer shallow water to deep water because the former is warmer. Besides, water is usually warmer in direct sunlight than in the shade. Yet, fish don’t have any eyelids(眼皮) and the sun hurts their eyes… The more I understood fish, the more I became effective at finding and catching them.

When I grew up and entered the business world, I remember hearing my first boss say, “We all need to think like salespeople.” But it didn’t completely make sense. My dad never once said, “If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman.” What he said was, “You need to think like a fish.” Years later, with great efforts to promote long-term services to people much older and richer than me, I gradually learned what we all need is to think more like customers. It is not an easy job. I will show you how in the following chapters.

1.Why was the author upset in fishing trips when he was nine?

A. He could not influence a fish as his father did.

B. His father was not patient with him.

C. His father did not teach him fishing.

D. He could not catch a fish.

2.According to the author, fish are most likely to be found _________.

A. in shallow water under waterside trees

B. in deep water on cloudy days

C. in shallow water under sunlight

D. in deep water on sunny days

3.After entering the business world, the author found _________.

A. it easy to think like a customer

B. his first boss’s sales ideas reasonable

C. his father’s fishing advice inspiring

D. it difficult to sell services to poor people

4.This passage most likely comes from _________.

A. a fishing guide B. a millionaire’s biography

C. a novel on childhood D. a popular sales book

D

A four-year-old girl sees three biscuits divided between a stuffed crocodile and a teddy bear.The crocodile gets two; the bear one.“Is that fair?” asks the experimenter.The girl judges that it is not.“How about now?” asks the experimenter, breaking the bear’s single biscuit in half.The girl cheers up: “Oh yes, now it’s fair.They both have two.” Strangely, children feel very strongly about fairness, even when they hardly understand it.

Adults care about fairness too --- but how much? One way to find out is by using the ultimatum (最后通牒) game, created by economist Werner Guth.Jack is given a pile of money and proposes how it should be divided with Jill.Jill can accept Jack’s “ultimatum”, otherwise the deal is off, and neither gets anything.

Suppose Jack and Jill don’t care about fairness, just about accumulating cash.Then Jack can offer Jill as little as he likes and Jill will still accept.After all, a little money is more than no money.But imagine, instead, that Jack and Jill both care only about fairness and that the fairest outcome is equality.Then Jack would offer Jill half the money; and Jill wouldn’t accept otherwise.

What happens when we ask people to play this game for real? It turns out that people value fairness a lot.Anyone offered less than 20-30% of the money is likely to reject it.Receiving an unfair offers makes us feel sick.Happily, most offers are pretty equitable; indeed, by far the most common is a 50-50 split.

But children, and adults, also care about a very different sort of (un)fairness, namely cheating.Think how many games of snakes and ladders have ended in arguments when one child “accidentally” miscounts her moves and another child objects.But this sense of fairness isn’t about equality of outcome: games inevitably have winners and losers.Here, fairness is about playing by the rules.

Both fairness-as-equality and fairness-as-no-cheating matter.Which is more important: equality or no-cheating? I think the answer is neither.The national lottery(彩票), like other lotteries, certainly doesn’t make the world more equal: a few people get rich and most people get nothing.Nevertheless, we hope, it is fair --- but what does this mean? The fairness-as-no-cheating viewpoint has a ready answer: a lottery is fair if it is conducted according to the “rules”.But which rules? None of us has the slightest idea, I suspect.Suppose that buried in the small print at lottery HQ is a rule that forbids people with a particular surname (let’s say, Moriarty).So a Ms Moriarty could buy a ticket each week for years without any chance of success.

How would she react if she found out? Surely with anger: how dare the organisers let her play, week after week, without mentioning that she couldn’t possibly win! She’d reasonably feel unfairly treated because ___________________.

To protest(抗议) against unfairness, then, is to make an accusation of bad faith.From this viewpoint, an equal split between the crocodile and the bear seems fair because (normally, at least), it is the only split they would both agree to.But were the girl to learn that the crocodile doesn’t like biscuits or that the bear isn’t hungry, I suspect she’d think it perfectly fair for one toy to take the whole.Inequality of biscuits (or anything else) isn’t necessarily unfair, if both parties are happy.And the unfairness of cheating comes from the same source: we’d never accept that someone else can unilaterally(单方面地) violate agreements that we have all signed up to.

So perhaps the four-year-old’s intuitions(直觉) about fairness is the beginnings of an understanding of negotiation.With a sense of fairness, people will have to make us acceptable offers (or we’ll reject their ultimatums) and stick by the (reasonable) rules, or we’ll be on the warpath.So a sense of fairness is crucial to effective negotiation; and negotiation, over toys, treats etc, is part of life.

1.It can be inferred that in the ultimatum game, _____.

A.Jack keeps back all the money

B.Jill can negotiate fair division with Jack

C.Jack has the final say in the division of money

D.Jill has no choice but to accept any amount of money

2.From Paragraph 2 to 4, we can conclude _____.

A.people will sacrifice money to avoid unfairness

B.fairness means as much to adults as to children

C.something is better than nothing after all

D.a 30-70 split is acceptable to the majority

3.Which of the following does fairness-as-no-cheating apply to?

A.divisions of housework

B.favoritism between children

C.banned drugs in sport

D.schooling opportunities

4.Which of the following best fits in the blank in Paragraph 7?

A.the lottery didn’t follow the rules

B.she was cheated out of the money

C.the lottery wasn’t equal at all

D.she would never have agreed to those rules

5.The chief factor in preventing unfairness is to _____.

A.observe agreements

B.establish rules

C.strengthen morality

D.understand negotiation

6. The main purpose of the passage is to ______

A.declare the importance of fairness

B.suggest how to achieve fairness

C.present different attitudes to fairness

D.explain why we love fairness

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