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It was a dreadfully cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home  1.                the bus stop.

2.  my house was merely two blocks away, it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road. I tried to thumb a ride but failed. My little boy woke up with a start and began to cry. I 3.    (convince) that things might become worse and nobody would bother to help on such a terrible day.

A few minutes later,   4. truck drove by, but to my surprise, I saw it  5.  (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.

A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you, please take   6.  .” He called out.

I stood there   7.  (astonish), barely believing that the man   8.   existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so  9.   (consider). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I accepted the offer and expressed my gratitude to him.

This man might have needed the umbrella for himself later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me   10.  it’s possible to give without expecting anything in return.

 

As a teenager in 1972, Bill Gates boasted that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20. While he did not quite achieve that goal, only 15 years later, he was a millionaire. And by 1992, as head of the Microsoft company, he became the richest man in America with assets(资产)of nearly US $ 6.3 billion.

Born in Seattle, Washington on 28, October, 1956, Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather. From the beginning, he was an extremely energetic and intelligent child. He had read the entire world book encyclopedia(百科全书)by the age of nine. His favorite subjects at school were science and math and his favorite pastime was "thinking".

Gates first started to play with computers at the age of 13. Before long he became an expert at working the school's computer. After his graduation from secondary school, Gates was accepted by the three top universities in the USA-Princeton, Harvard and Yale. He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autunm, majoring maths. But he was still obsessed(占据心里)with computers and spent as much time in the computer laboratories as he did in the lecture halls.

By 1975, Gates and a partner, Paul Allen, had developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it.

BASIC was a success because until it came along, there had been no efficient way of getting computers to carry out instructions. Although he had not completed his degree, Gates left university and went to work full time for the new company he had formed called Microsoft.

His next project was the software program that made him famous and very rich. It was called DOS, short for Disk Operating System, and it was purchased by IBM in 1980. Today it is the operating system used in more than 14 million personal computers around the world.

As chief executive officer(首席行政长官)of Microsoft, Gates is known as a bright man, but one who is not easily satisfied. He is quick to criticize his staff and hates to be questioned about decisions he has made. He was regarded as a loner and unfashionable boring computer nut until his marriage to Microsoft manager Melinda French on New Year's Day 1994. Yet to many people now, Gates, is a person who is, in spite of his great wealth, humble(谦恭)and ordinary. He spends his money carefully. He eats in fast food restaurants and flies economy class. And when praised for Microsoft's great success, he has been heard to say, "All we do is put software in a box and if people see it in the stores and like it, they buy it."

1.When he was a teenager, Bill Gates wanted to be a ______.

A.teacher           B.doctor            C.businessman       D.professor

2.When Gates went to Harvard, he ______.

A.was only interested in maths

B.spent most of his time in computer laboratories

C.developed the first computer software program

D.divided his time between his maths studies and the computer laboratories

3.Before the development of BASIC, ______.

A.no one was interested in computer software

B.software programs were not considered commercial projects

C.software programs were very expensive

D.no one wanted to pay for computer software

4.When the writer says "He was regarded as a loner and unfashionable boring computer nut", he means ______.

A.Bill was so strong-minded that no one could change his mind

B.The only thing that could interest Bill in his life was computer

C.Bill was such a boring young man that nobody would like to talk to him

D.Bill couldn't work out the boring computer programs

5.Most people think that Bill Gates is ______.

A.a crazy person                         B.a person obsessed with making money

C.someone who spends money freely         D.a quite common, normal person

 

The city of Venice,in  Italy,is one of a kind.It is built on more than 120 islands,just off arrival.After explaining where my new house was,I told him that I had left the key under the doormat.Since I knew it would be quite late before I could get back,I suggested that be make himself at home and help himself to anything that was kept in the refrigerator(冰箱).

  Two hours later my friend phoned me from the house.At the moment,he said,he was listening to some of my records after having had a nice meal.He had found the pan and meat in the refrigerator.Now,he was drinking a cup of tea and hoped that I would join him soon.When I asked him if he bad any difficulty finding the house,he answered that the only problem  was that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat,but luckily,the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and  he had climbed in through the window.I listened to all this in great surprise.There is no apple tree outside my window,but there is one by the living room window of my next-door  neighbor’s house!

 1.When my friend arrived,I could not go to meet him because________.

A.we were not good friends

B.I was busy at work

C.he had not told me that he would come

D.I did not want to see him

 2.A doormat is a mat______.

A.used as a door

B.for cleaning the bottom of shoes

C.put up on a door as an ornament(装饰物)

D.near a door under which people put their keys

3.I listened to my friend’s phone call in great surprise because____.

A.he had not waited for me to eat together

B.he had eaten too much of the food

C.he mistook my neighbor’s house for mine

D.he had left the house with the window open

 4.At last my friend______.

A.did not enter my house

B.entered my house after he opened the door

C.entered my house by climbing through the window

D.entered my house with the help of my neighbor

 5.The writer left the key under the doormat so that______.

A.nobody would find it

B.he might not lose it

C.his family could use the same key

D.his friend could easily get it

 

In a national spelling contest in America, an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her soft voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E.  71   By now, the girl knew she had misspelled the word. But instead of lying and telling the judges she had said the correct letter, she told the truth that she had said the wrong letter.  72 

     As the girl walked off the stage, the entire audience stood on their feet clapping to applaud her honesty. Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11-year-old girl’s courage and honesty, even when it cost her the contest.  73 

Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is what we would do if we knew we would never get caught.

This young girl could easily have lied, and nobody would have known it but her. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong.  74 

This young girl was strong and smart enough to prize her own conscience and character more than the prize from a spelling contest. Her respect for herself was more important than any respect others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the choice she made at the moment.

      75 

A.  So she won the contest.

B.  As a result, she lost the contest.

C.  The judges wanted to give her another chance.

D.  It’s been said, “If you cheat, you make yourself cheap.”

E.  It’s so true that the choices you make today make what you are tomorrow.

F.  They talked it over and finally decided to simply ask her what she had said.

G.  But the fact is that she won the biggest contest that day: the contest of her character.

 

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