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We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappears. 36 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I 37 to see -- or look at -- on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter 38 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On 39 days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime 40 out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. 41 , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I 42 all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how 43 I expected to see her each morning. You might say I 44 her.
“Did she have an accident? Something 45 ?” I thought to myself about her 46 . Now that she was gone, I felt I had 47 her. I began to realize that part of our 48 life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar 49 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who 50 walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are 51 markers in our lives. They add weight to our 52 of place and belonging.
Think about it. 53 , while walking to work, we mark where we are by 54 a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though 55 , person?
36. A. Make B. Take C. Give D. Have
37. A. happened B. wanted C. used D. tried
38. A. what B. how C. which D. when
39. A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy
40. A. took B. brought C. carried D. turned
41. A. Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially
42. A. believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered
43. A. long B. often C. soon D. much
44. A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired
45. A. better B. worse C. more D. less
46. A. disappearance B. appearance C. misfortune D. fortune
47. A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt
48. A. happy B. enjoyable C. frequent D. daily
49. A. friends B. strangers C. tourists D. guests
50. A. regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably
51. A. common B. pleasant C. important D. faithful
52. A. choice B. knowledge C. decision D. sense
53. A. Because B. If C. Although D. However
54. A. keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning
55. A. unnamed B.unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal
Producing money requires both artistic and technological skills. Dollar bills are made so that they are interesting to look at but very hard to copy. In total, there are sixty-five separate steps required to make a dollar bill．
The money making process begins when a yearly order is sent by the Federal Reserve Board. That order will then be divided in half. Half will be done here in Washington, D.C. and the other half will be done in Fort Worth, Texas. Next, the Bureau orders special paper which is actually cloth since it is 75% cotton and 25% linen．
This paper is made so that it can last a long time. And, it is made with details that make it hard to copy. For example, bills contain security threads. These narrow pieces of plastic are inside the paper and run along the width of the bill. This special paper is also made with very small blue and red fibers．
Once the money is printed, guillotine cutters (切纸机) separate the sheets into two notes, then into individual notes．The notes are organized in "bricks," each of which contains forty one-hundred-note packages. The bricks then go to one of twelve Federal Reserve Districts, which then give the money to local banks. Ninety-five percent of the bills printed each year are used to replace money that is in circulation, or that has already been removed from circulation．
You may know that America's first president, George Washington, is pictured on the one- dollar bill. But do you know whose face is on the two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred-dollar bills? They are, in order. President Thomas Jefferson, President Abraham Lincoln, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, President Andrew Jackson, President Ulysses Grant and statesman Benjamin Franklin．
The average life span of a one-dollar bill is twenty-one months. But a ten-dollar bill lasts only about eighteen months．The one hundred-dollar bill lasts the longest, eighty-nine months．One popular question is about the two-dollar bill. This bill is not printed very often. This is because many Americans believe two-dollar bills are lucky, so they keep them．
1.During money production, we must consider all EXCEPT that it must .
A. last a long time B. be hard to copy
C. be done by the president's order D. be interesting to look at
2.We can learn from the passage that the security threads .
A. are narrow pieces of plastic
B. are pressed outside the bills
C. are longer than the width of the bills
D. are actually made of cotton and linen
3. How many presidents are printed on the American money?
A. Four B. Five C. Six D. Seven
4.Why are the two-dollar bills not made often?
A. Because no one wants them．
B. Because they aren't damaged quickly like other bills．
C. Because they aren't used in America any more．
D. Because their material is a bit more expensive．
Jack Baines is a self-made millionaire, but his beginnings were very lowly. He was the youngest of eight children. His father had a 16 in a cotton mill (纱厂), but he was often 17 to work because of poor health. The family couldn’t 18 to pay the rent or bills, and the children often went 19 . After leaving school at the age of 14, Jack was 20 what to do when Mr Walker, his old teacher, offered to lend him ￡100 to start his own 21 .
It was just after the war. Raw materials were not enough, and Jack saw a 22 in scrap metal(废弃金属). He bought bits of metal and stored it in an old garage. When he had built up a large amount, he sold it and 23 plenty of money.
Jack 24 working hard. After one year he succeeded in 25 the ￡100.
By the time Jack was 30 years old he had 26 his first million, and he wanted to 27 this achievement by doing something “ 28 ”. With all his money it was 29 to build a beautiful home for himself and his parents. In 1959, “Baines Castle” was built in the 30 of the Lancashire countryside. It was one of the finest buildings in the country.
Jack has recently sold “Baines Castle” for ￡500 million, 31 Jack still can’t get used to 32 the good life. He can 33 be found drinking with the locals at the local pub（酒吧）.
“I remember being very 34 as a child, but never 35 as a child,” says Jack, “and I will never forget where I came from and who I am.”
1. A．job B．work C．company D．house
2. A．able B．glad C．unable D．eager
3. A．offer B．like C．expect D．afford
4. A．wrong B．hungry C．ill D．bad
5. A．seeing B．wondering C．doubting D．preparing
6. A．school B．farm C．business D．store
7. A．problem B．purpose C．future D．principle
8. A．spent B．borrowed C．wasted D．earned
9. A．enjoyed B．preferred C．promised D．hated
10. A．developing B．saving C．repaying D．paying
11. A．given B．made C．taken D．lost
12. A．remember B．honor C．celebrate D．recognize
13. A．common B．simple C．interesting D．grand
14. A．impossible B．possible C．obvious D．basic
15. A．ground B．front C．spot D．heart
16. A．so B．and C．or D．but
17. A．using B．sparing C．living D．keeping
18. A．often B．never C．sometimes D．seldom
19. A．rich B．poor C．healthy D．well
20. A．proud B．satisfied C．unhappy D．happy
Farmers can produce more by planting several different crops in the same field.But their success depends on which crops they plant together and how they mix (混合) them in the filed.In the past, the only way the farmers could learn which crops grow best together is to plant them and wait for the results.Now, however, a computer can give them answers.A new computer program written by Dr John Vanderwell of Michigan University can tell a farmer which plants grow well together and which do not.It can tell him how to plant the different crops; if he should plant each in a separate row, or mix the crops in the same row.It can tell the farmer how changes in planting each of the crops will affect the production of all of them.And it can tell him which plants can help reduce losses (损失) from diseases.
1.Which of the following best gives the main idea of the passage?
A．Computer helps find the best program for mixing plants.
B．Computer helps produce more crops.
C．Computer helps protect against insects and diseases.
D．Computer helps grow different plants.
2.According to the passage, to get the best result, one needs to choose carefully ________.
A．the kinds of crops to be planted together
B．the way for different crops to be mixed
C．both A and B
D．either A or B
3.It seems the new computer program can NOT tell us ________.
A．whether we should grow cotton and tomato together
B．how we should plant cotton and tomato together
C．what will happen if we grow potato, instead of tomato, together with cotton
D．how we can grow rice in the tomato field
4.The new computer program seems most useful in saving us ________.
A．man power B．seeds C．time D．land
5.Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Computers can tell farmers how many plants can grow together.
B．With the help of computers farmers don't have to do a lot of work.
C．With the help of computers farmers can get better results.
D．The change of one plant may cause a change in production.
During the early years of American settlement, a new form of English was beginning to develop in the islands of the West Indies and the southern part of the mainland, spoken by the black population. The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the happening of the slave trade. Ships from Europe travelled to the West African coast, where they exchanged cheap goods for black slaves. The slaves were shipped in terrible conditions to the Caribbean islands and the American coast, where they were in turn exchanged for such products as sugar and molasses(糖蜜). The ships then returned to England, completing an “Atlantic triangle”of journeys, and the process began again. Britain and the United States had outlawed the slave trade by 1865, but by that time, nearly 200 years of trading had taken place. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were over four million black slaves in America.
The policy of the slave-traders was to bring people of different language backgrounds together in the ships, to make it difficult for groups to plan rebellion. The result was the growth of several pidgin (混杂语言) forms of communication, and in particular a pidgin between the slaves and the sailors many of whom spoken English. Once arriving in the Caribbean, this pidgin English continued to act as a major means of communication between teh black population and the new landowners, and among the blacks themselves. Then, when children came to be born, the pidgin became their mother tongue, thus producing the first black Creole(克里奥尔语) speech in the region. This Creole English rapidly came to be used throughout the cotton plantations (种植园), and in the coastal towns and islands.
1.Which of the following shows the route of slave trade correctly?
A．EuropeWest African coastthe Caribbean islands and the American coastEurope
B．EuropeWest African coastEuropethe Caribbean islands and the American coast
C．West African coastEuropethe Caribbean islands and the American coastEurope
D．West African coastEuropethe Caribbean islands and the American coastWest African coast
2.It can be inferred that the slaves in the same ship ____.
A．didn’t communicate with each other
B．could understand several languages
C．spoke different languages
D．came from the same place
3.Creole speech comes from _____.
A．Spanish and English
B．English and an African language
C．a European language and an American language
D．an African language and an American language
4.What is the text mainly about?
A．The history of slave trade. B．“Atlantic triangle” of journeys.
C．Languages spoken in America D．The birth of black English
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