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A

Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1990s. She began singing in church. Soon, her rich deep voice became widely known in the area. Marian Anderson received many honors and awards during her life. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in nineteen sixty—three. Marian Anderson died at the age of ninety—six. Experts say she is remembered not only for the quality of her voice, but also because of the way she carried out her right to be heard.

B

Movie director Robert Altman died in November 2006, in Los Angeles, California. He was eighty—one years old. During his fifty-year career, he made some of the most influential movies of modern times.

C

Ann Richards died in September 2006 at the age of seventy-three. At her funeral service, leaders from around the country gathered to celebrate her life. Former President Bill Clinton spoke at the service. He said Ann Richards helped create a world where young girls could be scientists, engineers and police officers. He said she was a great woman with a big heart and big dreams.

D

Journalist R.W. Apple died in October 2006 at the age of seventy—one. Earlier this month his friends and family gathered in Washington, D.C. for a large memorial service. Famous writers, politicians, and cooks told about his warm personality, sharp intelligence, and extraordinary energy. After the service, guests enjoyed fine foods provided by some of the best cooks in the area.

E

William Styron died in November 2006 at the age of eighty—one. His stories are filled with rich language and complex moral questions. Many of his books try to understand the evil actions of people. Later in life William Styron suffered from severe depression. After recovering, he wrote honestly and bravely about his experience in “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.” He received great praise for educating people about the difficulties of mental illness.

F

Ruth Brown was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1928 and died in October 2004. Brown recorded many rhythm and blues hits in the 1950s. She also fought for musicians rights. In 1988, Atlantic Records agreed to pay her and thirty-five other musicians the money they owed them for using their songs for twenty years.

请阅读下列有关的信息, 然后匹配上面的美国名人。

As a young woman, she worked as a teacher and raised four children. She and her husband were very involved in local politics. Then one day, she decided to run for officer herself—and she won. She served first as country commissioner, then as Texas state treasurer. In nineteen ninety she was elected governor. She fought for equal rights, environmental protection and laws to restrict guns. She created a government in which women, Hispanics, and African-Americans played important roles.

“MASH”, was released in nineteen seventy. It tells about a group of American medical workers in a temporary military hospital in Korea during the Korean War in the 1950s. It questions the rules of the military establishment in a way that was sharply funny and intelligent; “Nashville” came out in nineteen seventy—five. It provides a complex look at changes in the country music industry. Many of his thirty—three films were nominated for Academy Awards, including “The Player” and “Gosford Park”

She learned traditional music at her Christian religious center. But she liked the popular jazz and rock music of the time even more. She left home at a young age to build a career in music. Soon, she became known as “the girl with the tear in her voice” because of her emotional way of singing. Her popular songs helped build the Atlantic Records company and she continued performing for the rest of her life until she died recently at the age of seventy six.

He is known as Johnny, wrote about many subjects, from politics and war to food and drink. During his forty—three years writing for the New York Times newspaper, he enjoyed a rich and eventful career. He was the paper’s chief reporter in cities like London, Moscow, Lagos and Nairobi. He covered events such as the Vietnam War, the Iranian revolution and the Gulf War. He reported on ten presidential elections. And, his opinions on fine foods, travel and the world’s best restaurants were very influential.

He wrote “Lie Down in Darkness” published in nineteen fifty—one when he was only twenty-five. It is about a troubled young woman who kills herself. It established him as a great new voice in American literature; he also wrote “The Confessions of Nat Turner” in nineteen sixty-eight which told about a nineteenth century slave revolt in the southern state of Virginia; and “Sophie’s Choice ” won the American Book Award in nineteen eighty. It is a tragic story about a woman and her children who were sent to a Nazi death camp in Poland during World War Two.

【小题1】C

【小题1】B

【小题1】F

【小题1】D

【小题1】E


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  The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat operation.His throat   1  , and he was afraid.However, the young nurse   2   by his bed smiled so   3   that the little boy smiled back.He   4   to be afraid.The young nurse was May Paxton   5   was deaf.May Paxton graduated   6   the Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909.Three years   7   she went to see Dr.Richardson about   8   nurse.Dr.Richardson was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital of Kansas City.  9   had never heard of a deaf nurse.She told May that her   10  would be very low and that the work would be   11  .However, May said that hard work did not frighten her.Dr.Richardson was   12   her, and accepted May as a student nurse.

  Dr.Richardson never   13   her decision.  14  , she was so pleased with May’s work that she later accepted two other deaf women as student nurses.The   15   was Miss Marian Finch, who was hard of   16  .The second was Miss Lillie Bessie.These three were   17   “the silent angles of Mercy Hospital” during the   18   they worked there.

  Dr.Richardson often   19   her faith in the girls’ ability to learn nursing.She wrote to May, “For three years, you have been with us…It is wonderful to me that no man,   20   or child ever, to my knowledge, made a complaint(投诉)against you…”

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cut

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hurt

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wounded

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damaged

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lying

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crying

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shyly

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sadly

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cheerfully

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weakly

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continued

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began

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stopped

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forgot

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for

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so

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and

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but

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as

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from

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with

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in

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later

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before

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ago

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then

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seeking

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changing

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hiring

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becoming

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You

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She

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We

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He

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money

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check

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pay

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price

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easy

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disappointing

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joyful

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angry with

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satisfied with

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sorry for

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regretted

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thought of

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liked

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believed

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In surprise

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reading

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hearing

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下面是一篇关于2006年美国逝去的五位特别人物的情况报道。请阅读下列关于他们的相关信息,并按照要求把这五个人物的信息进行匹配。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。首先,请阅读以下六位美国名人的信息,然后与下面的信息进行匹配。

A

Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1990s. She began singing in church. Soon, her rich deep voice became widely known in the area. Marian Anderson received many honors and awards during her life. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in nineteen sixty—three. Marian Anderson died at the age of ninety—six. Experts say she is remembered not only for the quality of her voice, but also because of the way she carried out her right to be heard.

B

Movie director Robert Altman died in November 2006, in Los Angeles, California. He was eighty—one years old. During his fifty-year career, he made some of the most influential movies of modern times.

C

Ann Richards died in September 2006 at the age of seventy-three. At her funeral service, leaders from around the country gathered to celebrate her life. Former President Bill Clinton spoke at the service. He said Ann Richards helped create a world where young girls could be scientists, engineers and police officers. He said she was a great woman with a big heart and big dreams.

D

Journalist R.W. Apple died in October 2006 at the age of seventy—one. Earlier this month his friends and family gathered in Washington, D.C. for a large memorial service. Famous writers, politicians, and cooks told about his warm personality, sharp intelligence, and extraordinary energy. After the service, guests enjoyed fine foods provided by some of the best cooks in the area.

E

William Styron died in November 2006 at the age of eighty—one. His stories are filled with rich language and complex moral questions. Many of his books try to understand the evil actions of people. Later in life William Styron suffered from severe depression. After recovering, he wrote honestly and bravely about his experience in “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.” He received great praise for educating people about the difficulties of mental illness.

F

Ruth Brown was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1928 and died in October 2004. Brown recorded many rhythm and blues hits in the 1950s. She also fought for musicians rights. In 1988, Atlantic Records agreed to pay her and thirty-five other musicians the money they owed them for using their songs for twenty years.

请阅读下列有关的信息:

56.As a young woman, she worked as a teacher and raised four children. She and her husband were very involved in local politics. Then one day, she decided to run for officer herself—and she won. She served first as country commissioner, then as Texas state treasurer. In nineteen ninety she was elected governor. She fought for equal rights, environmental protection and laws to restrict guns. She created a government in which women, Hispanics, and African-Americans played important roles.

57. “MASH”, was released in nineteen seventy. It tells about a group of American medical workers in a temporary military hospital in Korea during the Korean War in the 1950s. It questions the rules of the military establishment in a way that was sharply funny and intelligent; “Nashville” came out in nineteen seventy—five. It provides a complex look at changes in the country music industry. Many of his thirty—three films were nominated for Academy Awards, including “The Player” and “Gosford Park”

58.She learned to traditional music at her Christian religious center. But she liked the popular jazz and rock music of the time even more. She left home at a young age to build a career in music. Soon, she became known as “the girl with the tear in her voice” because of her emotional way of singing. Her popular songs helped build the Atlantic Records company and she continued performing for the rest of her life until she died recently at the age of seventy six.

59.He is known as Johnny, wrote about many subjects, from politics and war to food and drink. During his forty—three years writing for the New York Times newspaper, he enjoyed a rich and eventful career. He was the paper’s chief reporter in cities like London, Moscow, Lagos and Nairobi. He covered events such as the Vietnam War, the Iranian revolution and the Gulf War. He reported on ten presidential elections. And, his opinions on fine foods, travel and the world’s best restaurants were very influential.

60.He wrote “Lie Down in Darkness” published in nineteen fifty—one when he was only twenty-five. It is about a troubled young woman who kills herself. It established him as a great new voice in American literature; he also wrote “The Confessions of Nat Turner” in nineteen sixty-eight which told about a nineteenth century slave revolt in the southern state of Virginia; and “Sophie’s Choice ” won the American Book Award in nineteen eighty. It is a tragic story about a woman and her children who are sent to a Nazi death camp in Poland during World War Two.

 

 

People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a result. That is the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientists.

The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger competitors. “In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and female, had breeding (繁殖) rights within the group,” explains Marian Wong. “All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 5-10% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation.”

The reason for the size difference was easy to see. Once a subordinate fish grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group. More often than not, the evicted fish is then eaten up.

It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in order to avoid challenging the boss fish. Whether they did so voluntarily, by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened. To their surprise, the gobies simply refused the extra food they were offered, clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast.

The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threaten their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves, so keeping their competitors small.

While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr. Wong explains that understanding the relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarchical (等级的) societies remain stable.

The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans. “As yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction of food intake is in nature,” the researchers comment. “Data on human dieting suggests that, while humans generally diet to improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve long-term health and males regularly prefer females that are fatter than the females’ own ideal.”

1.When a goby grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it        .

A.faces danger

B.has breeding rights

C.eats its competitor

D.leaves the group itself

2.The underlined words “the evicted fish” in Paragraph 3 refer to        .

A.the fish beaten up

B.the fish found out

C.the fish fattened up

D.the fish driven away

3.The experiment showed that the smaller fish        .

A.fought over a feast

B.went on diet willingly

C.preferred some extra food

D.challenged the boss fish

4.What is the text mainly about?

A.Fish dieting and human dieting.

B.Dieting and health.

C.Human dieting.

D.Fish dieting.

 

 

People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a result. That is the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientists.

The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger competitors. “In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and female, had breeding (繁殖) rights within the group,” explains Marian Wong. “All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 5-10% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation.”

The reason for the size difference was easy to see. Once a subordinate fish grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group. More often than not, the evicted fish is then eaten up.

It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in order to avoid challenging the boss fish. Whether they did so voluntarily, by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened. To their surprise, the gobies simply refused the extra food they were offered, clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast.

The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threaten their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves, so keeping their competitors small.

While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr. Wong explains that understanding the relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarchical (等级的) societies remain stable.

The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans. “As yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction of food intake is in nature,” the researchers comment. “Data on human dieting suggests that, while humans generally diet to improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve long-term health and males regularly prefer females that are fatter than the females’ own ideal.”

1.When a goby grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it        .

A. faces danger                      B. has breeding rights

C. eats its competitor                                 D. leaves the group itself

2.The underlined words “the evicted fish” in Paragraph 3 refer to        .

A. the fish beaten up                B. the fish found out

C. the fish fattened up              D. the fish driven away

3.The experiment showed that the smaller fish        .

A. fought over a feast                                 B. went on diet willingly

C. preferred some extra food         D. challenged the boss fish

4.What is the text mainly about?

A. Fish dieting and human dieting.

B. Dieting and health.

C. Human dieting.

D. Fish dieting.

 

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     The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat (喉咙) operation. His throat   1  , and
he was afraid. However, the young nurse   2   by his bed smiled so   3   that the little boy smiled back. He   4   
to be afraid. The young nurse was May Paxton   5   she was deaf (聋的). May Paxton graduated   6   the
Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909.Three years   7   she went to see Dr. Richard son about   8   
a nurse. Dr Richardson was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital of Kansas City.   9   had never heard of a
deaf nurse. She told May that her  10  would be very low and that the work would be  11 . However, May said
that hard work did not frighten her. Dr. Richardson was  12  her, and accepted May as a student nurse.
     Dr. Richardson never  13  her decision  14 , she was so pleased with May's work that she later accepted two
other deaf women as student nurses. The  15  was Miss Marian Finch, who was hard of  16 . The second was
Miss Lillie Bessie. These three were  17  "the silent angles (天使) of Mercy Hospital" during the  18  they worked
there.
     Dr. Richardson often  19  her faith in the girls' ability to learn nursing. She wrote to May, "For three years,
you have been with us… It is wonderful to me that no man,  20  or child ever, to my knowledge, made a
complaint (投诉) against you…"
(     )1.A. cut          
(     )2.A. standing     
(     )3.A. shyly        
(     )4.A. continued    
(     )5.A. for          
(     )6.A. as           
(     )7.A. later        
(     )8.A. seeking    
(     )9.A. You          
(     )10.A. money       
(     )11.A. easy        
(     )12.A. angry with  
(     )13.A. regretted   
(     )14.A. In fact     
(     )15.A. one         
(     )16.A. reading   
(     )17.A. offered     
(     )18.A. year        
(     )19.A. spoke of    
(     )20.A. person    
B. hurt          
B. jumping       
B. sadly         
B. began         
B. so            
B. from          
B. before        
B. changing      
B. She           
B. check         
B. disappointing 
B. satisfied with    
B. thought of    
B. In a hurry    
B. others        
B. hearing       
B. chosen        
B. month         
B. said          
B. woman         
C. wounded     
C. lying       
C. cheerfully  
C. stopped     
C. and         
C. with        
C. ago         
C. hiring      
C. We          
C. pay         
C. joyful      
C. sorry for   
C. liked       
C. In surprise     
C. first       
C. listening   
C. told        
C. time        
C. heard of    
C. boy         
D. damaged     
D. crying      
D. weakly      
D. forgot      
D. but         
D. in          
D. then        
D. becoming    
D. He          
D. price       
D. difficult   
D. ashamed of                   
D. believed    
D. In public   
D. other       
D. writing     
D. called      
D. term        
D. noticed     
D. girl        

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