Bobby Moresco grew up in a tough working-class neighborhood in Manhattan.The bright lights of Broadway    36    him when he was a teen.But if you were a kid from that neighborhood,you would become a(n)   37   ,longshoreman(码头装卸工人)or criminal,not an actor.

Bobby moved to Hollywood to study   38   .“My father said,‘Stop this    39   and get a job;you have a wife and a daughter.’I wasn’t  a good actor,but I had a   40   need to do something different with my life.It was important for me to keep working at my   41   career.”In 1983 his brother Thomas was    42    .Bobby moved back and started writing as a way to explore the pain.Half-Deserted Streets,    43    his brother’s killing,opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988.A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to    44    screenplay.

    45     his reputation grew,he got   46   assignments to move back to Holly―wood.By 2003,he was again out of work and out of cash   47   he met Paul,who wanted to write a film about the country   48   September 11.The two worked on the script,but every studio in town    49   .Bobby believed so   50   in the script that he borrowed money and sold his house to keep   51   it.At last the writers found a film producer who would take a   52   

In May 2005,Crash slipped into the theaters and became a smash hit(十分走红的电影).At age 54 ,Bobby Moresco became an   53   Success.“If you have something you want to do in   54   ,don’t  think about the   55   ,”he says,“think about the ways to get it done.”

 

36.A.instructed

B.benefited

C.comforted

D.attracted

37.A.officer

B.construction worker

C.chairman

D.pianist

38.A.acting

B.writing

C.singing

D.teaching

39.A.eagerness

B.belief

C.craziness

D.chance

40.A.driving

B.forcing

C.missing

D.fading

41.A.1ost

B.abandoned

C.approved

D.chosen

42.A.suspected

B.laid off

C.murdered

D.knocked down

43.A.insisting on

B.based on

C.depending on

D.made up of

44.A.work as

B.work on

C.apply for

D.appeal to

45.A.With

B.For

C.Despite

D.As

46.A.enough

B.many

C.great

D.short

47.A.while

B.where

C.when

D.why

48.A.after

B.before

C.behind

D.until

49.A.adopted it

B.praised it

C.picked it up

D. turned it down

50.A.widely

B.strongly

C.interestingly

D.excitedly

51.A.designing

B.composing

C.pushing

D.explaining

52.A.chance

B.choice

C.thought

D.sight

53.A.overweight

B.overdeveloped

C.overdressed

D.overnight

54.A.motion

B.opinion

C.1ife

D.dream

55.A.deadline

B.problems

C.rewards

D.future

Dogs have long been used to find explosives and drugs.Now,a new study shows that man’s best friend can also help to find lung and breast cancer,researchers report in integrative Cancer Therapies.The findings show that trained ordinary household dogs can detect early―stage lung and breast cancers by smelling the breath samples of patients.

Researchers have found that cancer cells send out molecules different from those of healthy ones,and that might be sensed by smell by the highly sensitive dog’s nose.

For the study,five dogs were trained by a professional instructor to respond differently to breath samples of healthy and cancer patients.“The dogs learned to sit or lie down in front of cancer patient samples and to ignore control samples through the method of food reward,” McCulloch explained.

After a period of training,researchers tested the animals’ability to distinguish cancer patients from controls.The animals were given breath samples from 55 patients with lung cancer,3 1 with breast cancer and 83 healthy controls who were not included in the original training period.

McCulloch’s group found that the dogs were able to correctly distinguish the breath samples of cancer patients from those of the control subjects in about 90 percent of the cases.The dogs were also able to detecting early-stage lung and breast cancers.

“These results show that there is hope for early detection,”McCulloch said.The re-searches are planning to conduct further studies on the breath composition of cancer patients to possibly design an electronic device that can do the dogs’job.“A dog’s nose is so powerful it can detect odors(气味)10 000 to 100 000 times better than a human nose can.I hope people will be interested in doing this research,”McCulloch added,“It shows that there is definitely something out there.”

 

65.McCulloch and his group used           in their research.

A.10 dogs and 55 people                                 B.5 dogs and 86 people

C.10 dogs and 83 people                                 D.5 dogs and 169 people

66.The underlined work “distinguish” means

A.to make somebody feel better                       B.to recognize differences of

C.to remember somebody forever                    D.to discomfort somebody

67.We can infer from the passage that          

A.dogs can smell signs of other cancers except the above two kinds

B.the final goal of the researchers is to design an electronic dog to detect cancer

C.dogs can detect odors 10 000 to 100 000 times better than humans can

D.dogs will soon be widely used to smell signs of cancers in hospitals

68.Which of the following would be the best title?

A.Special Noses of Dogs                                B.Dogs and Cancer

C.Dogs Smell Signs of Cancer                        D.McCulloch’S New Discovery

 

In America, drivers’ education is part of regular high school curriculum. Every student in his or her second year of high school is required to take a class in driver’s education. However, unlike other courses, it is not given during the regular school year. Instead, it is a summer course.

The course is divided up into two parts: class time for learning laws and regulations and driving time to practise driving. Class time is not unlike any other class. The students have a text from which they study the basic laws they must know to pass the written driving test that is given to anyone wanting to get a driver’s license.

Driving time is a chance for the students to get behind the wheel (steering wheel) and practise starting steering, backing up, parking, switching lanes, turning corners, and all the other maneuvers required to drive a car. Each student is required to drive a total of six hours. The students are divided up into groups of four. The students and the instructor go out driving for two-hour blocks of time. Thus, each student gets half an hour driving time per outing. The instructor and “driver” sit in the front seats and the other three students sit in the back.

Drivers Ed cars are unlike other cars in which they have two sets of brakes, one on the driver’s side and one on the other side where the instructor sits. Thus, if the student driver should run into difficulties the instructor can take over. The car also has another special feature. On the top of the car is a sign that reads: STUDENT DRIVER. That lets nearby drivers know that they should use extra caution because the student driver is a beginning driver, not very experienced and prone to driving slowly.

After the student has passed the driver’s education course and reached the appropriate age to drive (this age differs in every state but in most cases the person must be 16 years old), they can go to a designated state office to take their driver’s test, which is made up of an eye examination, a written test, and a road test. The person must pass all three tests in order to be given a driver’s license. If the person did well in his or her driver’s education class, he or she will pass the test with flying colors and get a driver’s license.

 

49. In America, the driver’s course mentioned above __________.

A. is considered as part of the advanced education

B. is given to anyone wanting to get a driver’s license

C. is carried on at the same time as other courses

D. is offered to all the students of Grade 2 in high schools

50. To prevent accidents, a drivers Ed car ___________.

A. has a sign inside it                              B. has two sets of brakes

C. is big enough to hold five persons        D. can’t run very fast

51. We can infer that the students are required to __________ in their whole driving practice.

A. go out driving for twelve times         

B. spend at least six hours driving

C. drive for two-hour blocks of time       

D. get half an hour driving

52. In the last sentence,“with flying colors”means _________.

A. happily     B. successfully   C. colorfully       D. quickly

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