题目内容
Everyone knows what the NBA’s latest clipper（快马）Blake Griffin is capable of doing on the court, or at the hoop（篮筐）. After all, it’s not every day you see a basketball player jump over a car and score a slam dunk（大灌篮）. Griffin’s amazing performance won the 22-year-old the 2011 Slam Dunk Contest.
Griffin has been turning heads all season with his dunking ability. As a rookie（新秀）with the Los Angeles Clippers. Griffin is a hard worker and the team’s new hope.
There’s no doubt that Griffin is on his way to a rising NBA career. But where did it all begin?
Griffin’s has loved basketball ever since he was a kid. He grew up watching the NBA and practicing how to dunk, mastering this skill at just 13 years old.
Griffin’s passion for basketball runs in the family. His father was his coach in high school, and his older brother Taylor is also a professional player. Griffin says being a coach’s son helped him grow professionally.
“I always watched basketball with my dad and he taught me the right way to play. I kind of picked up the game through him,” he told NBA online.
Griffin started showing some serious basketball ability at his high school in Oklahoma, where he won state titles in each of his four years.
It wasn’t long before many of Griffin’s peers were asking for his autograph. “A girl once came up to me with a rubber duck and was like, ‘Will you sign this?’ So I signed the top of it and gave it back to her,” Griffin told Sports Illustrated magazine.
After high school, Griffin went on to become a star basketball player at university. It was there that he earned the nickname “The Terminator（终结者）” for his fury（火爆）during games. Despite his fierce on-court personality, Griffin says he’s really just a normal, nice guy. “A lot of people are surprised at how laid-back（放松的）I am. I’m more soft-spoken（温和的）off the court. Out on the court, they see somebody who’s intense and all that. But I like to hang out to have fun and make jokes and laugh,” he told NBA online.
51. From the first two paragraphs we can learn that_____.
A. Blake Griffin has a superior ability to play basketball
B. a basketball player jumps over a car and scores a slam dunk
C. Blake Griffin has to work harder as a rookie
D. it is easy for a basketball player to turn heads all season
52. What should be the best title for the passage?
A. Surprise of Clippers B. Hope of Clippers
C. Laugh at Winners D. Cheers for Winners
53. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Griffin’s performance won the 2012 Slam Dunk Contest.
B. Griffin is on his way to a rising NBA career as a veteran(老运动员，老兵).
C. Griffin loved practicing his dunking at the age of 22.
D. Griffin’s passion for basketball comes from his family.
54. What does the underlined word “peers” in the eighth paragraph mean?
A. Lovers who are in the same school.
B. Kids who play with each other.
C. Persons who are the same age.
D. Friends who help each other.
55. What’s the author’s attitude towards Blake Griffin?
A. Positive. B. Negative.
C. Pessimistic. D. Critical.
ABDCA
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It’s been a while and he hasn’t found me yet. What’s that I hear? Now all my brothers are looking for me. They’ve all been caught, but not me. They’ll never trick me into coming out to catch me. Wait, is that Dad I hear calling my name? Oh no, now I hear someone going to call Grandpa to help look for me. I’m not coming out now because I’m in really big trouble.
What to do? If I come out and say I heard them calling me, I’ll be in big trouble. Think, think! How do I get out of trouble? I know what to do! I’ll tell them I fell asleep while waiting. Is that Grandpa’s voice? Heh heh heh! Now’s my chance. I’ll crawl out slowly and rub my eyes. Now that I see Grandpa go towards me quickly, I say. “I feel asleep.”
“Oh! You had us all worried!” says Grandpa. “You little devil, I’m just glad you’re all right, but next time try not to fall asleep and scare us like that, okay?” says Dad. Whew! I pulled it off (成功). Now to keep my mo
uth shut. And I did, for over 42 years. Once in a while, a kid pulls the wool over people’s eyes. So that’s one of my little secrets I’ve never revealed before. Don’t tell anyone now!
【小题1】The place where the boy was hiding smelt terrible because it .
| A．was too wet there | B．was used as a barn |
| C．was dirtied by animals | D．was just under the garage |
| A．Happy – excited – nervous. | B．Regretted – happy – anxious. |
| C．Excited – nervous – disappointed. | D．Happy – nervous – regretted. |
| A．Children can win others’ trust more easily than adults. |
| B．Children can tell a lie that others believe to be true. |
| C．Children can be easily fooled by adults. |
| D．Children are good at telling lies. |
| A．a teenager | B．a naughty boy child |
| C．a young adult | D．a middle – aged man |
In Greek mythology（神话）, the gods punished Sisyphus by forcing him to roll a rock up a steep hill for eternity（来世）. But he was probably better off than if they’d forced him to sit and stare into space until the end of time, conclude the authors of a new study on keeping busy. They found that people who have something to do, even something pointless, are happier than people who sit around.
“The general phenomenon I’m interested in is why people are too busy doing what they are doing in modern society,” says Christopher K. Hsee, of the University of Chicago. “People are running around, working hard, the way beyond the basic level.” Sure, there are reasons, like making a living, earning money, and so on. But, Hsee says, “I think there’s something deeper: We have extra energy and we want to avoid idleness.”
In a study 98 students were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one. They were given a choice of either handing in the first survey nearby or at a more distant location they had to walk to. Whichever option they chose, they received a chocolate bar. Not everyone chose to go to the faraway location. Two-thirds chose the lazy option. Yet those who chose to stay busy by going to the faraway location were found to be happier than those who had stayed put.
But if the chocolate bars offered at the two locations were different, they were more likely to choose the far location—because they could make up a good and acceptable reason for the trip, Hsee and his colleagues say.
Hsee thinks it may be possible to use this principle—people like being busy, and they like being able to show being busy right or reasonable—to benefit society. “If we can find a way for idle people to engage in activity that is at least not harmful, I think it is better than destructive business,” he says. Hsee himself has been known to give a research assistant a useless task when he doesn’t have anything to do, so he isn’t sitting around the office getting bored and depressed.
【小题1】The author starts the passage with the Greek mythology story to ________.
| A．make it easier to understand the passage |
| B．draw readers’ attention to Greek culture |
| C．show Greek people enjoyed being busy |
| D．bring about the subject of the passage |
| A．make others think they are not lazy |
| B．keep their energy at the basic level |
| C．earn more money to support their family |
| D．avoid the state of having nothing to do |
| A．remained there | B．kept occupied | C．got around | D．stayed awake |
| A．Blue. | B．Empty. | C．Contented. | D．Trapped. |