题目内容
When John woke up he found himself________ in the hospital, but he didn't know how that had come ________.
- A.staying; around
- B.lying; about
- C.lied; across
- D.lying; into being
Ella Fant was a middle-aged lady who lived with her only son John in a small house.She__36__John very much. In her__37__he couldn't do anything_38__.Every morning she would give him breakfast_39__bed and bring him the papers to__40__.It isn't really true that he was too__41__to work---in fact he had tried a few__42__.First of all he was a window-cleaner and in his first week he managed to_43__at least six windows. Then he_44__a bus conductor and on his second_45__a passenger stole his bag with all the fares(车费)collected.He_46__lost his job as a postman_47__he sent off all the letters when he should have taken them to people's houses. It seemed that there was_48__suitable work for him. So he_49__to join the army. Mrs. Fant was so__50__about this that she told the__51__to all her neighbours. "My John is good to be a soldier," she said. "He is going to be the best soldier there__52__was,I can tell you!"
Then the great day came_53__he was to march past the palace in the parade(接受检阅的队伍).His_54__mother traveled to the city early in the morning to be sure of getting a good__55__in the crowd. The parade was full of sound and colour. But when John and his fellow soldiers came in sight some of the people watching couldn’t help laughing at the one who couldn't keep pace with the other as they marched along.
But Ella Fant, who was filled with happiness shouted at the top of her voice: "Look at them! They're all out of step except my John! Isn't he the best!"
【小题1】.
A.depended on | B.waited on | C.trusted | D.loved |
A.hope | B.eyes | C.head | D.beliefs |
A.wrong | B.great | C.good | D.strange |
A.to | B.at | C.in | D.by |
A.check | B.read | C.keep | D.sign |
A.lazy | B.young | C.weak | D.shy |
A.ones | B.years | C.tasks | D.jobs |
A.erase | B.drop | C.break | D.clean |
【小题10】.
A.day | B.try | C.route | D.chance |
A.thus | B.even | C.once | D.only |
A.even if | B.so that | C.because | D.though |
A.some | B.such | C.less | D.no |
A.began | B.promised | C.managed | D.decided |
A.excited | B.worried | C.anxious | D.curious |
A.incident | B.change | C.news | D.matter |
A.yet | B.ever | C.never | D.just |
A.where | B.since | C.when | D.till |
A.proud | B.kind | C.strict | D.lucky |
A.time | B.view | C.experience | D.impression |
John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Luckily he had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son,you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others,including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15,to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words — as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged (使气馁) him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn(典当)her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”
Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America — worth $150 million.
【小题1】John’s father died in ________.
A.1922 | B.1933 | C.1924 | D.1923 |
A.his father died when John was very young |
B.life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown |
C.there were no schools for black people in their hometown |
D.John needed more education badly |
A.didn’t believe in or depend on others |
B.thought no one could succeed without working hard |
C.believed one would succeed without working hard |
D.thought one could be whatever one wanted to be |
A.about the spiritual support John’s mother gave him |
B.how John H. Johnson became successful |
C.about the importance of a good education |
D.about the key to success for blacks |
Why not an island get-away?
Newfoundland
Price
From £1080 per person in June 2005
We went with:
Frontier Canada frontier-travel. Co. uk/Canada
About this trip
John Cabot had set sail looking for a new trade route for Asia, when he landed in Cape Bonavista. Clearly he felt this barren desolate landscape could provide this, so he claimed it for its potential and so began the rise of the British Empire.
Newfoundland is the most easterly point in North America and was Britain’s first overseas colony until 1949, when it became part of Canada. It’s roughly the size of England and Craig’s journey by camper van or RV (recreational vehicle) took in just a small part of the island called the Bonavista Peninsula.
First stop was the tiny fishing port of Keels to stock up for the journey ahead. There’s a long standing love affair between Newfoundlanders and cod. The seas off the Newfoundland coast were once the richest cod fishing grounds in the world, attracting fishermen from all over Europe. Many settled, establishing these coastal villages known locally as outports.
An hour’s drive down the coast is the town of Bonavista, where Craig met up with retired fisherman, Wilson Hayward. He told Craig how the landscape used to lie, and described the peculiarities of the language and accents in the area. There’s a different language in every bay.
【小题1】The title “Why not an island get-away?” _________.
A.invites people to take a holiday trip to Newfoundland |
B.informs people that the island is moving away from where it used to be |
C.tells people that they can buy the island at the price of £1080. |
D.asks people to visit the website frontier-travel. co.uk/Canada |
A.a tourist guide |
B.a kind of fish found around the island |
C.a tourist agency |
D.someone who has already booked the trip |
A.North America | B.Asia |
C.South America | D.the British Empire |
A.UK | B.Canada | C.Europe | D.Bonavista |
A.teaching languages | B.making camper vans |
C.looking after retired fishermen | D.fishing cod |