After years of study, I have known there are only two types of people in this world: those who get to the airport early and those who arrive when the plane is about to take off.

If there were any justice(公正)in this world, early-airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing. And late-airport people would be punished. But early-airport people get ulcers(溃疡), heart attacks and bite their fingernails to the bone. Late-airport people almost don’t realize they are flying.

A guy of that kind once said, “Don’t hurry. If you miss your flight, it’s because God doesn’t want you to go.” This is clearly a guy who is never going to get an ulcer.

Early-airport people suffer another “name”. They are called exactly what they are -wimps(窝囊废). I know. I was an early-airport person for years. “My baggage will get on the plane first,” I told myself. Indeed it would, which made it the last baggage they took off the plane after landing.

Another strange thing: No matter how early I showed up, I was always told that someone had called two or three years ahead of me and asked for the best seat. I thought it was a trick. I thought there was someone in America who called every airline every day and said: “Is that wimp Simon flying somewhere today? If he is , give me his seat.”

After a lifetime arguing with my wife over whether I really have to pack 24 hours in advance and set the alarm clock four hours ahead, I have learned another fact about early-airport people and late –airport people:

They always marry each other.

We can learn from the passage that     .

A. late-airport persons are often nervous

B. early-airport persons are always at ease during the flight

C. early-airport persons get their baggage first after the landing

D. late-airport persons always take things easy

Paragraph 5 mainly wants to tell us that      .

    A. someone always plays tricks on the writer

    B. the airlines usually fool passengers

C. early-airport persons always can’t get good seats

D. the service of airlines is very bad

This passage is written in order to     .

A. give readers tips about taking a plane

B. offer suggestions about having a good plane trip

C. express the writer’s anxiety about taking a plane

D. show people’s different attitudes toward catching planes

It could be inferred that the writer’s wife is     .

A. an early-airport woman               B. a late-airport woman

C. a hot-tempered woman                 D. a sensitive woman

Connecting with Patients

       Dr. Paris often treats several generations of a family over many years. “He’s seen us through two births, one operation, multiple earaches, a broken wrist and a recovery from a serious traffic crash,” says Jill Farrow, a 43-year-old lawyer whose first visit to Dr. Paris was as a teenager. During the birth of her younger son, Farrow began bleeding badly. Dr. Paris managed to solve the problem in a delicate procedure. “Twenty years ago, she probably would have died,” he says. Today, when he performs school sports physical examinations for the Farrow boys, 10 and 11, he is always reminded that lives are changed forever by doctors just doing their jobs.

       To be a mix of country doc and somewhat adventurer, the 55-year-old family physician moved to Hailey after completing his residency(医生实习期). He hoped to practice medicine there and ski at nearby Sun Valley. Unfortunately, the only job opening was for an emergency-room doctor in Missoula, Montana, 300 miles away. Dr. Paris took it. "I'd ski all day and then drive all night to be in Missoula for a 48-hour shift," he recalls. "I'm lucky to be alive." Knowing he couldn't keep up with his eight-hour commute(通勤), he began taking flying lessons.

In 1981, Dr. Paris joined a small medical practice in Hailey, a former mining town with a population at the time of 2,109. As Hailey grew in the shadow of Sun Valley's booming popularity, Dr. Paris's own practice expanded to seven physicians, including his wife, Kathryn Woods, who is also a family doctor. They met in 1986 at a certification exam in Denver when, in a room full of men in stodgy suits, Woods arrived wearing a Lycra biking outfit and carrying the front wheel of her bicycle (which she couldn't lock up outside). Dr. Paris asked her out on the spot. In 1989, they married.

What Jill Farrow says is to indicate ________.

       A. how weak the bodies of her family 

B. how hard it is to be a doctor

       C. how brilliant the physician’s skill is 

D. how easy it is to deal with such problems

Dr. Paris often reminds himself that ________.

       A. lives of people should not always stay the same

       B. people can rely on themselves to change their life

       C. doctors should change their own life

       D. it is the duty of a doctor to heal the patients

Why did Dr. Paris move to Hailey?

       A. Because he can be a doctor and an adventurer there.

B. Because he has to finish his residency there.   

       C. Because his children are fond of skiing at nearby Sun Valley.

       D. Because he has to be an emergency-room doctor there.

We can infer the doctor got married probably at the age of ________.

       A. 27.                   B. 37.                   C. 17.                          D. 47.

This passage is intended to ________.

       A. introduce Dr. Paris   

B. praise the doctor’s excellent medical art

       C. describe the doctor’s adventurous experience  

D. tell the doctor’s love affairs

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1 Let me write it down while it is still _________ in my mind.

2 Without __________ our life would be quite different today.

3 He got _________ in the right leg while playing foofball last week.

4 When an earthquake comes people can feel the house _________.

5 At Jerry’s party, Mr Smith delivered an amusing _________.

6 If a nuclear war should break out, it would bring a great _________ to man.

7 Most of the buildings _________ in the earthquake.

8 From yesterday on the temperature began to _________.

9 Never _________ a person only by his clothes.

10 Our class went on an _________ trip last Monday.

11 Stones and _________ are used to build a house.

12 The water in the small _________ froze and kids skated on it.

13 The clothes of those who smoke a lot are often __________.

14 Li Siguang is __________ as the father of geology in China.

15 After getting hanged Saddam Husin _________ in his home town.

16 Three Gorges (峡)________ on the Changjiang River is a great project in the world.

17 Reading the letter, she _________ out crying.

18 The students are busy __________ for the New Year’s Day Evening.

19 Hundreds of workers were killed in the coal _________ accidents last year.

20 He was greatly _________ at the news of his uncle’s death.

21 The Grand ________ was built during the Sui Dynasty(隋朝).

22 It looks like rain. We’d better seek _________ from the rain.

23 Five soliders were sent to _________ those skiers trapped in the snow.

24 _________ can be seen rising from the boiling kettle(水壶).

25 The bad weather _________ our trip.

 

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