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Steve Kimball started a career in March as a school - bus driver for First Student Norwich. The morning of April 8 seemed   26   , Kimball recalled, except that he didn’t quite feel right. Noah got in the bus and noticed immediately that the driver didn’t    27   well; he wasn’t talking and joking    28     the two of them are used to doing every morning.

Throughout the brief ride to   29   more riders, Noah kept asking Kimball, "Steve, are you all right?".

Kimball said the boy's persistence was getting him annoyed. So Noah    30   sent a quick text message to his parents   31   the driver was definitely sick but  32   he was OK. His father  33   the bus company immediately. Soon the ambulance came over and drove Kimball to the nearest  34   .

"The doctor said I suffered a severe heart attack," Kimball said Thursday,  35 recovering at his Norwich home. Kimball said. "God worked a miracle  36  Noah. He saved my life, plain and simple. "

Kimball wasn't the only one  37   . On Tuesday, First Student held a ceremony at Noah's school   38  him for his "heroic leadership. " Company officials  39   him with a plaque (匾牌) and a $50 prize.

"You are being  40   for your quick thinking and showing great care and  41    for your driver, and because of you, he will be just fine," the plaque  42   .

Noah doesn't care for the sudden   43  . He had to be coaxed (哄劝) by Kimball to attend Tuesday' s ceremony. "I just did what was the right  44   to do," he said.

But Noah wasn't shy when asked whether he was    45  Steve's return to work.
“Oh, yeah!” he said.
 

26. A. strange

27. A. perform

28. A. as if

29. A. pick up

30. A. calmly

31. A. when        

B. normal

B. behave

B. in case

B. drop off

B. quietly

B. as

C. noisy

C. serve

C. the way

C. pull up

C. faithfully

C. which            

D. busy

D. look

D. now that

D. carry out

D. sincerely

D. that

32. A. admitted

33. A. called

34. A. school

35. A. still

36. A. by

37. A. admirable

38. A. in terms of

39. A. provided

40. A. recognized

41. A. guidance

42. A. agrees

43. A. celebration

44. A. attitude

45.A. looking up to

B. declared

B. reminded

B. neighbourhood

B. even

B. for

B. desperate

B. in honor of

B. sent

B. involved

B. concern

B. applauds

B. shock

B. thing

B.getting along with

C. insisted

C. responded

C. hospital

C. soon

C. in

C. hopeful

C. in memory of

C. supplied

C. approved

C. curiosity

C. reads

C. instruction

C. person

C. living up to

D. indicated

D. visited

D. bus-stop

D. thus

D. without

D. thankful

D. in favor of

D. presented

D. remembered

D. determination

D. writes

D. excitement

D. time

D. looking forward to

26-30 BDCAB 31-35 DCACA       36-40 CDBDA

41-45 BCABD

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第一节:阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
A
Basic Training: Second Saturday Chef’s Series
For the second year , The University of Arkansas System’s Winthrop Rockefeller Institute is offering hands-on cooking workshops to the public. It begins on Saturday ,October 11 and continues the second Saturday of each month through May 2009 .
This year , the series will be held in the Rockefeller Institute’s new culinary (烹饪的) arts classroom – a large room with seats as well as a large cooking area where Executive Chef Steve Jenkins can demonstrate his techniques to the class. Each class begins at 9 am and ends around 4 pm.
Chef Jenkins will present the following courses:
SOUP’S ON – Oct. 11. 2008
DIP INTO CHOCOLATE – Nov. 8, 2008
THE SAUCY SIDE OF COOKING—Dec. 13,2008
SOMETHING’S FISHY—Jan. 10, 2009
IT’S ALLIN THE DOUGH (面团)—Feb .14,2009
IF YOU LOVE SUSHI (寿司) LIKE I LOVE SUSHI  Mar.14,2009
COOL AS A CUCUMBER—Apr. 11,2009
SPICE IT UP . HERB—May 9,2009
Space is limited , and reservations are required. To reserve your place at our table , visit www. Wawri.org or call (501) 727-5435. Overnight Lodging (住宿) is available. Cost: $59— $60 per person .
46. If one wants to learn to make Sushi , he / she can attend the course held on___ .
A. Oct. 11,2008   B. Mar. 14, 2009   C. Dec. 13, 2008   D. May 9,2009
47. What can we learn from this passage ?
The cooking work shops last a year
The cooking work shops are held in the evening .
One needs to book in advance to attend the cooking workshops .
The cooking workshops are held on the second Sunday of every month .
48. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage ?
A. Who will give the presentations .   
B. Where the cooking workshops are held .
C. How many seats there are in the classroom .
D. How much one should pay to attend the cooking workshops .

Pacing and Pausing

Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.

It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (思维定式). And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in --- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

That's why slight differences in conversational style --- tiny little things like microseconds of pause --- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems --- even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.

1.What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

A. Betty was talkative.

B. Betty was an interrupter.

C. Betty did not take her turn.

D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.

2.According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

A. Americans.            B. Israelis.       C. The British.            D. The Finns.

3.We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

C. one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

D. one should receive training to build up one's confidence

 

Steve Jobs on life and death

When I was 17, I read a quote (引述) that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, some day you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an   1  on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every   2  and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”  And whenever the    3  has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to   4  something.

Remembering that I’ll be   5  soon is the most important tool I’ve ever used to help me make the big   6  in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all   7  of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is   8  important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to   9 . You are already naked. There is no reason not to   10  your heart.

Your time is limited, so don’t   11  it living someone else’s life. Don’t be   12  by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the   13  to follow your beliefs and goals. They somehow already know what you really want to   14 . Everything else is   15 .

1.                A.expectation     B.impression      C.imagination    D.examination

 

2.                A.minute         B.night           C.day  D.week

 

3.                A.answer         B.solution         C.result    D.chance

 

4.                A.accept         B.hide           C.change   D.avoid

 

5.                A.famous         B.dead           C.old  D.forgotten

 

6.                A.decisions       B.contributions    C.differences    D.mistakes

 

7.                A.understanding   B.certainty        C.fear D.knowledge

 

8.                A.mostly         B.hardly          C.nearly    D.truly

 

9.                A.take           B.lose            C.give D.win

 

10.               A.break          B.catch          C.warm D.follow

 

11.               A.waste          B.imagine        C.spend D.risk

 

12.               A.confused       B.trapped        C.discouraged    D.hurt

 

13.               A.wisdom        B.idea           C.desire D.courage

 

14.               A.see            B.show          C.become   D.forget

 

15.               A.necessary       B.natural         C.secondary D.possible

 

 

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