题目内容
My boss’s daughter was studying in the Philippines. He asked me if my husband and I could take care of her . He thought his daughter would be able to improve her English communication skills in this way .
After days of thinking , we agreed . He then brought her here and left after 3 days. I thought that my boss’s daughter was well-mannered, but that was wrong .
After a month of staying in the Philippines, she started to show her true colors. When my husband asked her what she wanted for breakfast, she answered him in a rude way. From then on, we experienced fights at home. There was a time when we didn’t talk to her for a week as a punishment of not being good to us. What I hated most was that she didn’t care about other people’s feelings. She ate ahead of us when we were still working and didn’t leave anything for us. So we had to separate her food from ours to avoid such a problem .
The worst thing about her was that she shouted at us. I was wondering if she did this to her parents . We told this to her parents , but unfortunately I didn’t think that solved the problem . This situation lasted for almost 8 months . Our patience was tested during that time .
We tried to teach her everything we could to make her a better person, but I guess 8 months may not to be enough . We even tried to understand her and adjust for her, but it didn’t work.. I just hope that she learned something from us and from other Filipinos.
31. This passage is mainly about the writer’s experience of .
A. trying to please her boss
B. changing a girl’s bad behavior
C. improving her communication skills
D. dealing with a teenage girl staying in her house
32. Why did the boss want his daughter to stay with the writer?
A. Because he was too busy to take care of his daughter
B. Because he wanted his daughter to take a holiday there
C. Because he wanted his daughter to improve her English in this way
D. Because he wanted the writer to teach his daughter good manners .
33. What do the examples in paragraph 3 tell us ?
A. The daughter wasn’t behaving well .
B. The writer and her husband were careless.
C. The writer and her husband hated children.
D. The daughter tried her best to make others happy .
34. The underlined word “that” in paragraph 4 refers to .
A. being patient with her B. her parents punishing her
C. asking her parents about her D. telling her parents about her behavior
35. After reading the passage , we learn that .
A. the writer had known the daughter was hard to deal with
B. the daughter learnt to behave well in the end
C. the writer didn’t enjoy the daughter’s stay
D. the daughter hated dealing with others
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Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then . It wasn’t easy getting hired. I had to fight my way in to a dime-a-word job. But once you were there, I found , you were in .
Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there—moving from an ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I struck with it.
Instead, I had made a decision to leave.
I entered my boss’s office. Would he rage? I wondered. He had a famous temper. “Matt, we have to have a talk, ” I began awkwardly. “I came to the Globe when I was twenty —four. Now I’m forty . There’s a lot I want to do in life. I’m resigning. ”
“To another paper? ” he asked.
I reached into my coat pocket, but didn’t say anything, not trusting myself just then.
I handed him a letter that explain everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. That the Globe had taught me in a thousand ways. That we were at a rare turning point in history, I wanted to be directly engaged in the change.
“I am glad for you , ” he said , quite out of my expectation. “ I just came from a board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can do deal with. But much of it we can’t ,” he went on. “I wish you all the luck in the world, ”be concluded. “And if it doesn’t work out , remember ,your star is always high here.”
Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody—even though I’d be risking all on an unfamiliar venture : all the financial security I had carefully built up.
Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into a billion-dollar property.
I’m resigning, Bill, ” I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn’t looking angry of dismayed either. After a pause, he said, “Golly, I wish I were in your shoes.”
【小题1】 From the passage we know that the Globe is a famous .
A.newspaper | B.magazine | C.temple | D.church |
A.he would be able to realize his lifetime dreams |
B.he would let his long favourite dreams fade away |
C.he would never have to worry about his future life |
D.he would never be allowed to develop his ambitions |
A.he had serious trouble with his boss |
B.he got underpaid at his job for the Globe |
C.he wanted to work in the new media industry |
D.he had found a better paid job in a publishing house |
A.the writer was to fail | B.the writer was stupid |
C.he would do the same if possible | D.he would reject the writer’s request |
In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this question and found the answers interesting.
One morning I got into three different taxis and announced, “Well, it’s my first day back in New York in seven years. I’ve been in prison.” Not a single driver replied, so I tried again. “Yeah, I shot a man in Reno.” I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, but nobody asked. The only response came from a Ghanaian driver, “Reno? That is in Nevada?”
Taxi drivers were uniformly sympathetic when I said I’d just been fired. “This is America,” a Haitian driver said. “One door is closed. Another is open.” He argued against my plan to burn down my boss’s house. A Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope; he refused to take me to the middle of George Washington Bridge—a $20 trip. “Why you want to go there? Go home and relax. Don’t worry. Take a new job.”
One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the word “BANK” on it, I tried calling a taxi five times outside different banks. The driver picked me up every time. My ride with a Haitian driver was typical of the superb assistance I received.
“Let’s go across the park.” I said. “I just robbed the bank there. I got $25,000.”
“$25,000?” He asked.
“Yeah, you think it was wrong to take it?”
“No, man. I work 8 hours and I don’t make almost $70. If I can do that, I do it too.”
As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.
“Hey, there’s another bank,” I said, “Could you wait here a minute while I go inside?”
“No, I can’t wait. Pay me now.” His reluctance may have something to do with money—taxi drivers think the rate for waiting time is too low—but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can’t expect unconditional support.
【小题1】. From the Ghanaian driver’s response, we can infer that ____.
A.he was indifferent to the killing | B.he was afraid of the author |
C.he looked down upon the author | D.he thought the author was crazy |
A.Because he was able to help the author to find a new job. |
B.Because he wanted to go home and relax. |
C.Because it was far away from his home. |
D.Because he thought that the author would commit suicide. |
A.The driver thought that the rate for waiting time was too low. |
B.The driver thought it wrong to support a taxi rider unconditionally. |
C.The driver was frightened and wanted to leave him as soon as possible. |
D.The driver did not want to help a suspect to escape from a bank robbery. |
A.They are ready to help you do whatever you want to. |
B.they often refuse to pick up those who would kill themselves. |
C.They are sympathetic with those who are out of work. |
D.They work only for money. |
A.how to please taxi drivers. |
B.how to deal with taxi drivers |
C.the attitudes of taxi drivers towards riders in personal trouble |
D.the attitudes of taxi drivers towards troublesome taxi riders |