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______earlier, I' d have told you.

A.
If I would have known it
B.
Had I known it
C.
If I knew it.
D.
Should I know it

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After a lot of weightlifting and 25 exhausting days training, a 52-year-old woman recently became the first female “gripman” on San Francisco’s historic cable cars.

Fannie Barnes passed her written test and completed a final run under the watchful eye of a supervisor, Municipal Railway spokesman Alan Siegel said.

Deep calluses(茧) are already forming at the base of her fingers and there is a hole in her glove. Two other women quit after a single day with injured muscles. “Now they’re going to have to change the word from gripman to grip person, just because of me,” Barnes said earlier, “I’m so excited.”

After almost a year of serious workouts, Barns can pull more than 61 kilos, only 23 kilos less than her body weight. And she’ll need the muscle, for this is no modern, push-button technology. Every time a car starts up again after making a stop, the gripman must haul back on a lever controlling a device that grips the cable, which runs continuously at 14 kilometers per hour. If the grip slips, so does the car. A second person operates the brakes.

In addition to having to throw her weight around on the job, she’s got to throw out some attitude to men who were hard to convince. The city employs 76 men in the job.

“A lot of men said mean things to me and didn’t want to help train me. But I would like to thank the guys who were against me because they gave me even more inspiration to do it.” she said.

Not all the men were against her. Many of the male colleagues yelled out support as she did her training runs. One of her biggest tests was drizzly December morning. She first went down the Hyde Street Hill, considered the most dangerous incline on the cable car routes. “I had to have the will and I had to believe I could do it,” she said. “It was scary, but as I started going down full grip and felt that I was in control, I knew I was on my way,” Barnes already is a pioneer of sorts. She started working as a cable car conductor six years ago, collecting fares and assisting on the back brake. She is one of only three women to have that job. But she said she always wanted the job up front on the car. (400)

What is unusual about Fannie Barnes getting a job as a gripman?

A. She is the oldest one to work as a grpman.

B. She is the first women to work as a gripman.

C. She is the fattest women to work as a gripman.

D. She is the most suitable one to work as a gripman.

What did the 52-year-old woman do when she first began working on the city’s cable car?

A. As a gripman. B. As a conductor. C. As a brakeman. D. As a supervisor.

It can be inferred from the passage that Fannie Barnes is ________.

A. strong and easy-going B. strong-willed and self-confident

C. popular and humorous D. considerate and quick-tempered

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K=Kathy M=Mum

M: Kathy, have you decided what you’re going to do in the vacation?

K: I need to (76) e______ some money. I’d try to find a job looking after children. What do you think, Mum?

It’s not an easy job and you don’t have any (77)p??????______ knowledge about (78) c______. Some children could be noisy and(79) b_______ behaved. Do you have any other ideas?

K: Not (80) r________. I don’t think much of the jobs I’ve seen (81) a________ in the newspaper.

(A week later)

M: Kathy, are you still looking for a children job?

K: No, Mum. I (82) m______ to tell you earlier. I’ve been offered a job in the office of the local computer factory and it’s well (83) p______. I’ve decided to take it and will start on Monday.

M: Good! Tell me more (84) d______ about the job.

K: I will work as a (85) s_______, typing letters, answering phone calls and so on.

M: You will find it busy and boring, so you need to be patient and careful.

K: Thank you, Mum. I’ll try my best.

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—I’m sorry for being so late. I should have called you earlier.
--_________. I’ve just arrived.

A．That’s no trouble	B．You are welcome
C．That’s all right	D．You can never tell

In 1978, I was 18 and was working as a nurse in a small town about 270 km away from Sydney, Australia. I was looking forward to having five fays off from duty. Unfortunately, the only one train a day back to my home in Sydney had already left. So I thought I’d hitch a ride (搭便车).

I waited by the side of the highway for three hours but no one stopped for me. Finally, a man walked over and introduced himself as Gordon. He said that although he couldn’t give me a lift, I should come back to his house for lunch. He noticed me standing for hours in the November heat and thought I must be hungry. I was doubtful as a young girl but he assured （使…放心）me I was safe, and he also offered to help me find a lift home afterwards. When we arrived at his house, he made us sandwiches. After lunch, he helped me find a lift home.

Twenty-five years later, in 2003, while I was driving to a nearby town one day, I saw an elderly man standing in the glaring heat, trying to hitch a ride. I thought it was another chance to repay someone for the favour I’d been given decades earlier. I pulled over and picked him up. I made him comfortable on the back seat and offered him some water.

After a few moments of small talk, the man said to me, “You haven’t changed a bit, even your red hair is still the same.” I couldn’t remember where I’d met him. He then told me he was the man who had given me lunch and helped me find a lift all those years ago. It was Gordon.

1.The author had to hitch a ride one day in 1978 because_______.

A. she missed the only train back home

B. she was going home for her holidays

C. the town was far away from Sydney

D. her work delayed her trip to Sydney

2.Which of the following did Gordon do according to Paragraph 2?

A. He gave the girl a ride back home.

B. He helped the girl find a ride.

C. He bought sandwiches for the girl.

D. He watched the girl for three hours.

3.The reason why the author offered a lift to the elderly man was that_________.

A. she realized he was Gordon

B. she had known him for decades

C. she wanted to repay the favour she once got

D. she was going to the nearby town

4.What does the author want to tell the readers through the story?

A. Those who give rides will be rapid.

B. Good manners bring about happiness.

C. People should offer free rides to others.

D. Giving sometimes produces nice results.

I start to wonder what else had changed since I’d been gone. My parents are in an awkward puzzle, wondering how to treat me now----whether to treat me—still their daughter—as one of them, an adult, or as the child they feel they sent away months earlier.

I run into two of my best friends from high school; we stare at each other, expressionless. We ask the simple questions and give simple answers. It’s as if we have nothing to say to each other. I wonder how things have changed so much in such a small amount of time. We used to laugh and promise that no matter how far away we were, our love for each other would never change. Their interests don’t interest me anymore, and I find myself unable to relate my life to theirs.

I had been so excited to come home, but now I just look at it all and wonder: Is it me? Why hadn’t the world stood still here while I was gone? My room isn’t the same, my friends and I don’t share the same promise, and my parents don’t know how to treat me—or who I am, for that matter.

I get back to school feeling half-satisfied, but not disappointed. I sit up in my bed in my dorm room, surrounded by my pictures, dolls. As I wonder what has happened, I realize that I can’t expect the world to stand still and move forward at the same time. I can change and expect that things at home will stay the same. I have to find comfort in what has changed and what is new; keep the memories, but live in the present.

A few weeks later, I’m packing again, this time for winter break. My mom meets me at the door. I have come home accepting the changes, not only in my surroundings, but most of all in me.

1.What can we infer about the writer?

A．She is a high school student.	B．She is a college student.
C．She is a clerk in a school.	D．She is a traveler.

2.What surprises the writer most?

A．The living conditions of her parents.	B．The decorations in her room.
C．The meeting with her best friends.	D．The things still staying the same.

3.What is this passage mainly about?

A．The writer’s curiosity about the changes.

B．The changes in the writer’s surroundings and in herself.

C．The writer’s disappointment about the changes.

D．The writer’s refusal to accept the changes.

______earlier, I' d have told you.

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