Since 1989,Dave Thomas,who died at age 69,was one of the most recognizable faces on TV.He appeared in more than 800 commercials(商业广告)for the hamburger chain named for his daughter.“As long as it works,”he said in 1991,“I'll continueto do those commercials.”
Even though he was successful,Thomas remained troubled by his childhood.“He still won't let anyone see his feet,which are out of shape because he never had proper-fitting shoes,”Wendy said in 1993.Born to a single mother,he was adopted(收养)as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan.After Auleva died when he was 5,Thomas spent years on the road as Rex travelled around seeking construction work.“He fed me,”Thomas said,“and if Igot out of line,he'd beat me.”
Moving out on his own at 15,Thomas worked,first as a waiter,in many restaurants.But he had something much better in mind.“I thought if I owned a restaurant,”he said,“I could eat for free.“A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1986.
In 1969,after breaking with Sanders,Thomas started the first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers,in Columbus,Ohio,which set itself apart by serving made-to-order burgers.With 6000.restaurants worldwide,the chain nowmakes $ 6 billion ayear in sales.
Although troubled by his own experience with adoption,Thomas,married since 1954 to Lorraine,66,and with four grown kids besides Wendy,felt it could offer a future for other children.He started the Dave Thomas Foundation(基金会)for Adaption in 1992.
In 1993,Thomas,who had left school at 15,graduated from Coconut Creek High School in Florida.He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party.The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed.
“The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave,”says friend Pat Williams.“He wasn't a great actor or a great speaker.He was just Joe Everybody.”
(1)
What is the article mainly about?
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A.
The life of Dave Thomas.
B.
The dream of Dave Thomas.
C.
The schooling of Dave Thomas.
D.
The growth of Dave Thomas's business.
(2)
What do we know about his childhood?
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A.
He lived a poor life.
B.
He had caring parents.
C.
He stayed in one place.
D.
He didn't go to school.
(3)
Choose the right time order of the following events in Tho-mas's life
a.graduated from high school
b.started his own business
c.became a millionaire
d.started a foundation
e.met Harland Sanders
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A.
e,b,c,d,a
B.
a,e,c,b,d
C.
e,c,b,d,a
D.
a,e,b,c,d
(4)
“He was just Joe Everybody.”(in the last paragraph)means ________
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A.
Dave was famous
B.
Dave was ordinary
C.
Dave was showy
D.
Dave was shy
(5)
What is the name of Dave Thomas's business?
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A.
Thomas's.
B.
Wendy's.
C.
Lorraine's.
D.
Rex's.
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My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car.From the time I wa s a saver.My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week.I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura.In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural.The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get.I earned some of my money picking one crop or another.When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time.She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked.I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day.Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker.
In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away.She left me 100 share s of AT&T.One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me$240 per year in dividend s(利息).That wa s huge for a kid my age.
By the time I wa s seventeen.I had saved up $ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted.Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up $ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car.I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”.I wa s so excited.
My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got.Thi s wa s not a bad thing.I learned self-reliance.Self-reliance i s equal to freedom.Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father.
(1)
Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of $1, 300?
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A.
Weekly allowance.
B.
Her earning s by picking crop s.
C.
Share s left by grandma.
D.
Money earned from selling share s.
(2)
The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________.
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A.
she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s
B.
enough money had been earned for her car
C.
the work wa s too hard for children like her
D.
she had no time to do that again for some rea son
(3)
We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________.
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A.
16
B.
17
C.
18
D.
19
(4)
The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________.
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A.
give the author freedom
B.
be unwilling to buy the author a car
C.
teach the author to learn self-reliance
D.
give the author a big surpri se
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Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47,experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s.When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent.“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French.”
Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country.The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain.
The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military.The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that.
Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice.Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent.
Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent.Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common.
When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent.However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot.
(1)
According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome.
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A.
who se parent ha s experienced a head injury
B.
who have lived in a foreign country for a long time
C.
who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke
D.
who have learned foreign language from their coworker s
(2)
If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________.
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A.
hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him
B.
he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again
C.
he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s
D.
hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent
(3)
Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________.
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A.
introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information
B.
warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke
C.
make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured
D.
tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War