题目内容
When Mr. Holland was a young man, he played a lot of football, and he had always been thin and very strong. Then he worked in 1 for many years, and he 2 to work in a car. By the time he was 40, he was fat and soft.
One day one of his friends said to him, “Would you like to be 3 ?”
“Of course I would, ” Mr. Holland answered.
“Well,” his friend said, “ 4 going to your office by car and get a bicycle. ”
Mr. Holland had not ridden a bicycle for many years. “It’s very 5 to learn to ride a bicycle again at your 6 , ” his wife said.
However, it was not too hard for Mr. Holland to do. He 7 read the newspaper in the evening. Now he bought a bicycle and 8 riding that every evening 8 . He hoped that it would 9 him to get thinner, and he got a lot of 10 from it.
He found some little roads which were not really very narrow. Still, they were too narrow for 11, and there he got away from the 12 of the city. They were becoming 13 for him. They were not really very loud, but they were too loud 14 Mr. Holland.
Then he began to go to his office on 16. Sometimes all the cars stopped at a 17. He went past them to the 18, because his bicycle was 19.
Yesterday he stopped to a red light, a man came up behind him on 20. He stopped too and said to Mr. Holland, “Have the police taken your driving license away too?”
1. A. his home B. an office C. the fields D. the workshop
2. A. drove B. walked C. came D. arrived
3. A. softer B. thinner C. fatter D. younger
4. A. consider B. finish C. begin D. stop
5. A. easy B. enjoyable C. possible D. hard
6. A. all B. first C. age D. time
7. A. usually B. seldom C. never D. even
8. A. enjoyed B. experiment C. practiced D. pretended
9. A. instead B. either C. thus D. only
10. A. help B. have C. lead D. put
11. A. money B. pleasure C. knowledge D. courage
12. A. animals B. people C. bicycles D. cars
13. A. people B. noises C. voices D. sounds
14. A. much too B. too much C. much harmful D. too many
15. A. for B. from C. on D. with
16. A. his bicycle B. the bus C. the car D. his way
17. A. street B. corner C. red light D. crossing
18. A. front B. end C. last D. office
19. A. big B. narrow C. new D. useful
20. A. a car B. a bus C. another bicycle D. the same bicycle
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York, and he has proved his point by selling boxes of rubbish for the price of an expensive bottle of wine. Justin Gignac, 26, has sold almost 900 1______ presented plastic boxes of rubbish from the street of Big Apple at between ＄50 and ＄100 each. Buyers from 19 countries have paid for the souvenirs (纪念品). The idea has been so successful that he is thinking of promoting it around the world. It all began when Mr. Gignac was at a summer workshop, "We had a discussion about the importance of 2______," he recalls. "Someone said packaging was unimportant. I disagreed. The only way to prove it was by selling something nobody would ever want." He searches the streets of Manhattan and typical 3______ include broken glass, subway tickets, Starbucks cups and used 4______ forks. "Special editions" are offered at a high price. He charged ＄100 for rubbish from the opening day of the New York Yankees' stadium. Mr. Gignac denies 5______ his customers for fools:"They know what they're getting. They appreciate the fact that they're taking something nobody would want and finding beauty in it." Some 6______ customers include people who used to live in the city and want a down-to-earth souvenir. He claims he has even sold to art collectors. Realizing that the concept appears to be a real money-maker, Mr. Gignac has 7______ a company and is employing his girlfriend as vice president. He 8______ to discuss his profit margins:"It's actually quite a lot of effort putting them together-but yes, garbage is free." Mr. Gignac is considering more varieties of souvenirs. He maintains that he has signed 9______ with people interested in similar projects from as far as Berlin and London. |
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If the package looks pretty, people will buy just about anything. So says an advertising executive in New York, and he has proved his point by selling boxes of rubbish for the price of an expensive bottle of wine.
Justin Gignac,26, has sold almost 900 1.presented plastic boxes of rubbish from the street of Big Apple at between ＄50 and ＄100 each. Buyers from 19 countries have paid for the souvenirs（纪念品）. The idea has been so successful that he is thinking of promoting it around the world.
It all began when Mr Gignac was at a summer workshop, “We had a discussion about the importance of 2.,”he recalls.” Someone said packaging was unimportant. I disagreed. The only way to prove it was by selling something nobody would ever want.”
He searches the streets of Manhattan and typical 3.include broken glass, subway tickets, Starbucks cups and used 4.forks. “Special editions” are offered at a high price. He charged ＄100 for rubbish from the opening day of the New York Yankees’ stadium.
Mr Gignac denies 5.his customers for fools: “They know what they’re getting. They appreciate the fact that they’re taking something nobody would want and finding beauty in it.”
Some 6.customers include people who used to live in the city and want a down-to-earth souvenir. He claims he has even sold to art collectors.
Realizing that the concept appears to be a real money-maker, Mr Gignac has 7.a company and is employing his girlfriend as vice president. He 8.to discuss his profit margins: “It’s actually quite a lot of effort putting them together-but yes, garbage is free.”
Mr Gignac is considering more varieties of souvenirs. He maintains that he has signed 9.with people interested in similar projects from as far as Berlin and London.