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     One of the greatest stories of rags to riches success is that of Andrew Carnegie, who started life in
poverty but became one of the richest men in the world.
     Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835, the son of a weaver. In 1848, the family moved to the United States and at 13 Carnegie began to work in a cotton mill, earning $1.5 per week.About three years later,
he found a better job as a telegraph messenger boy. At work, his superiors (上级) were impressed by
his abilities and willingness to work hard. In 1853, he gained an office job at the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. This was his first big break. He continued to impress and rose rapidly through the company,
gaining_more_and_more_responsibility.At the same time, Carnegie loved reading very much and made
use of every opportunity to visit the library.He read widely on all subjects, particularly literature.
     Carnegie now began to save a little money and, with the help of his employer, began to make some
successful investments. He invested in the iron industry and eventually set up in business himself, owning
several iron and steel plants. This was where he made his fortune.By the 1890s, the Carnegie Steel
Company was the biggest and most profitable business in the world.
     Carnegie had always believed that the pursuit (追求) of wealth was never an end in itself. In his view,
successful, wealthy people should redistribute their wealth for the benefit of everyone in society. True to
his word, in 1901, at the age of 66, he retired from business and devoted the rest of his life to charity
work.
     Carnegie's lack of formal education and his poor family background clearly didn't put barriers in the
way of success. His rapid rise from poverty to wealth was due to his willingness to work hard, his
intelligence and good business sense, and his talent for making things happen. He died in 1919 at the age
of 83.

1. What can be learnt from the text?

A. Carnegie's employers had a high opinion of him.
B Carnegie made the investments independently after saving enough money.
C. Carnegie believed that we should try to earn as much money as possible in our life.
D. Carnegie could have been more successful if he had been formally educated.

2. What does "gaining more and more responsibility" in the second paragraph most probably mean?

A. Becoming more and more intelligent.
B. Being promoted to higher ranks.
C. Having a better sense of confidence.
D. Reading more and more books.

3. When did Carnegie get his first big success in his life?

A. When he took a job as a telegraph messenger boy.
B. When he worked at the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
C. When he made investments in the iron industry.
D. When he founded the Carnegie Steel Company.

4. Which of the following will be the suitable title for the text?

A. Andrew Carnegie: A Wealthy Man
B. Steel & Iron: The Most Profitable Business
C. From Rags to Riches: The Story of Andrew Carnegie
D. Intelligence and Good Business Sense: Two Factors in Becoming Wealthy

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      One evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote
road in Wales.She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path.That's when she heard the whistle
sounded by the driver of a train.Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway line.Seconds later, she
watched the train drag her car almost a kilometer down the railway tracks.
    Ceely's near_miss made the news because she blamed it on her GPS device(导航仪). She had never
driven the route before.It was dark and raining heavily.Ceely was relying on her GPS, but it made no
mention of the crossing."I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a
speeding train," she told the BBC.
     Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely's story in his book When Machines Fail Us,
points the finger at the limitations of technology.We put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital
helpers are too often not up to the job.They are filled with small problems.And it's not just GPS devices:
Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless
keyboards.
      The problem with his argument in the book is that it's not clear why he only focuses on digital
technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes.A mapmaker might have left the
crossing off a paper map.Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention.Perhaps the railway
authorities are at fault for poor signalling system.Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and
worked out that there really is something specific  wrong with  the  GPS  equipment.But  Stevenson
doesn't say.
     It's a problem that runs through the book.In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the
advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computerbased locking systems for cars.He offers two
independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country.He says that
once again not all new locks have proved reliable.Perhaps, but maybe it's also due to the shortage of
policemen on the streets.Or changing social circumstances.Or some combination of these factors.
     The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and complex.It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in.Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for
a wiser use of technology.
       If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our
machines.After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years.They have probably been fooling us
for just as long.

1. What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her accident?

A. She was not familiar with the road.
B. It was dark and raining heavily then.
C. The railway workers failed to give the signal.
D. Her GPS device didn't tell her about the crossing.

2. The phrase"near miss" (Paragraph 2 ) can best be replaced by ________.

A. close hit
B. heavy loss
C. narrow escape
D. big mistake

3. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with?

A. Modern technology is what we can't live without.
B. Digital technology often falls short of our expectation.
C. Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.
D. GPS error is not the only cause for Ceely's accident.

4. In the writer's opinion, Stevenson's argument is ________.

A. onesided
B. reasonable
C. puzzling
D. wellbased

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1. What's the best title for this passage?

A. Part-time Job
B. Mother's Love, No Charge
C. Payment for House Work
D. Greedy Mother

2. The writer wrote the passage in order to ______.

A. show that children should be paid for their housework
B. show that children should not be paid for their housework
C. show a clever way of teaching children
D. tell children how to spend their spare time

3. How do you think of the mother in the passage?

A. Clever.
B. Greedy.
C. Cold-hearted.
D. Selfish.

4. From the last passage we know that ______.

A. the boy got all the money he wanted
B. the mother was unwilling to give the money to the boy
C. the boy realized that it was not right to ask for money for the housework
D. the mother was angry with what the boy said

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     One in five US teenagers have some degree of hearing loss, according to researchers who said the
problem is growing."Teenagers really underestimate how much noise they are exposed to" Dr Josef
Shargorodsky said.__①__
     The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compared national
surveys between the early 1990s and the mid2000s.In the first survey, about 15 percent of teenagers
had some degree of hearing loss.__②__Most of the hearing loss was in one ear only.While it was
usually slight, one in 20 adolescents had more pronounced (显著的) problems-up 50 percent since
the first survey.
     Hearing loss is very common in the elderly, Grimes said, but she added that it was concerning to
see it come into the younger age groups.In babies and young children, hearing problems are known
to delay language development, which in turn influences performance in other areas.Slight hearing loss,
for instance, makes it difficult to distinguish between highfrequency consonants like "s" and "f"
     __③__The science is less clear for adolescents, but it is easy to imagine how being hard of hearing
could influence learning, said Grimes."We know from a lot of data that noisy classrooms are one of the
biggest challenges to learning."
     The reasons for the rise are still uncertain.When asked about noise exposure-on the job, from
firearms or recreational activities, for instance-the teenagers didn't indicate any change.But
Shargorodsky said, "We knew from before that it is difficult to ask this age group about noise
exposure-they underestimate it."__④__Although it's not clear that these devices are to blame,
Grimes said it was still a good idea to turn down the volume.But she pointed out the advice would
likely fall on deaf ears.She said the American Academy of Hearing had also contacted Steve Jobs,
the CEO of Apple, about adding a volume limiter on iPods, but never heard back.

1. In which place should the sentence "Few people would call it noise when they listen
to music on their MP3 players, for instance." be put?

A. ①
B. ②
C. ③
D. ④

2. What's the main idea of the third paragraph?

A. Hearing loss was very common in the elderly in the country.
B. The sounds like "s" and "f" are hard to distinguish by babies.
C. The number of teenagers with hearing problems is decreasing.
D. Babies and teenagers are also facing problems of hearing loss.

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The reasons of the hearing loss are known to the researchers.
B. The surveys have been carried out for at most 15 years.
C. The reasons for the rise are clear to the researchers.
D. The results of the surveys have been published in a newspaper.

4. The American Academy of Hearing contacted the CEO of Apple in order to________.

A. share the surveys with the CEO of Apple
B. get more help in finance from the Apple Company
C. remind the company to add a volume limiter on iPods
D. express warning and threat to the CEO of Apple

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