A little girl was given so many picture books on her seventh birthday that her father. Who should have run his office and let her mother run the home, thought his daughter should give one or two of her new books to a little neighbor boy named Robert, who had visited their home sometimes.

   Now, taking books, or anything else, from a little girl is like taking sweets from a baby, but the father of the little girl had his way and Robert got a couple of her books. “After all, that leaves you with nine,” said the father, who thought he was a child psychologist(心理学家),and couldn’t shout his big stupid mouth on the subject.

  A few weeks later, the father went to his library to look up “father” in The Oxford English Dictionary, eager to enjoy the praise of fatherhood through the centuries, but he couldn’t find volume(册)F-G and then he discovered that others were missing too. A-B,L-M, V-Z. He looked everywhere for them, and learned what had happened to the four missing volumes.

   “A man came to the door this morning” said the little daughter, “and he didn’t know how to get from here to Torrington or from Torrington to Wintec, and he was a kind man, much nicer than Robert, and so I gave him four of your books After all, there are thirteen volumes in the Oxford English Dictionary, and that leaves you with nine.

According to the writer’s opinion,      

A. a mother should keep house and father educate the children

B. A father should run the home as well as his office

C. A father should run his office and leave his children to his wife

D. A father shouldn’t only run his office but educate his children

“The father of the little girl has his way” means       

the father went out to work in his office 

B. the father decided to the girl a lesson

C. the father still did what he wanted to.

Considering himself a psychologist, the father        

couldn’t stop discussing the subject    

B. couldn’t helping(禁不住)talking about the subject

couldn’t refuse to listen to the subject  

D. couldn’t give an explanation of he subject

What’s still unclear to us in the story?

A. The exact number of the picture books the girl had received.

B. How many volumes the Oxford English Dictionary includes.

C. Whether each volume of the dictionary includes entries beginning with two letters.

D. Whether the father knew his daughter’s mind well

What do we know about the little girl?

A. She liked Robert very much.            B. She liked reading dictionary

She dislikes what her father did to her picture books.  

D. She is a kind and helpful girl.

The website FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man, Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot of farmers.
As he tells it, the idea for the site was planted when a farmer told him one day that she was recently divorced and would like to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nine o’clock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning.
So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched his website. “You don’t have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly.com, but you do have to have the good old-fashioned traditional values of America’s Heartland.” 
You also have to live in the United States or Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a full membership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the site listed more than 58,000 members. Many of them are farmers in the United States. Others are students or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tells us about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website.
Some farmers have also found love through a group, Singles in Agriculture, which was formed as a nonprofit organization in 1986. It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance, but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and social activities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website, singlesinag.org, says there are more than 1,000 members across the nation and as far away as France.
【小题1】Jerry Miller started singlesinag.org in order to     .

A.help farmersB.support traditions
C.understand farmersD.represent farmers
【小题2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 indicate?
A.She dislikes city lifestyle.
B.She prefers late night coffee
C.Country life isn’t well understood.
D.It’s tiring to get up early.
【小题3】Which of the following is true of singlesinag.org?
A.Its services are free.
B.It provides dating services.
C.Only farmers can become its members.
D.Farmers in France can’t benefit from it.
【小题4】The author of the text intends to     .
A.advertise for the two websites
B.introduce two websites
C.encourage social activities
D.urge readers to help farmers
【小题5】 It can be inferred from the text that     .
A.all farmers desire marriage
B.farmers are easy to meet new people
C.more farmers get divorced in the USA
D.the Internet helps improve farmers’ social life

The website FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man, Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot of farmers.
As he tells it, the idea for the site was planted when a farmer told him one day that she was recently divorced and would like to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nine o’clock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning.
So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched his website. “You don’t have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly.com, but you do have to have the good old-fashioned traditional values of America’s Heartland.” 
You also have to live in the United States or Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a full membership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the site listed more than 58,000 members. Many of them are farmers in the United States. Others are students or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tells us about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website.
Some farmers have also found love through a group, Singles in Agriculture, which was formed as a nonprofit organization in 1986. It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance, but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and social activities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website, singlesinag.org, says there are more than 1,000 members across the nation and as far away as France.
【小题1】Jerry Miller started singlesinag.org in order to     .

A.help farmersB.support traditions
C.understand farmersD.represent farmers
【小题2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 indicate?
A.She dislikes city lifestyle.
B.She prefers late night coffee.
C.Country life isn’t well understood.
D.It’s tiring to get up early.
【小题3】Which of the following is true of singlesinag.org?
A.Its services are free.
B.It provides dating services.
C.Only farmers can become its members.
D.Farmers in France can’t benefit from it.
【小题4】The author of the text intends to     .
A.advertise for the two websites
B.introduce two websites
C.encourage social activities
D.urge readers to help farmers
【小题5】It can be inferred from the text that     .
A.all farmers desire marriage
B.farmers are easy to meet new people
C.more farmers get divorced in the USA
D.the Internet helps improve farmers’ social life

The triathlon(铁人三项运动) promises to be one of the most popular Olympic sports.Recently it has drawn huge crowds attracted by athletes swimming 1,500mcycling 40kmthen running 10km without stopping.But what makes an attractive 17?year?old girl give up everything for the doubtful pleasure it offers?

Melanie Sears has not yet learnt those often?repeated phrases about personal satisfactionmental challenge and higher targets that most athletes use when asked similar questions.“You swim for 1,500mthen run out of the water and jump on your bikestill wet.Of coursethen you freeze.When the 40km cycle ride is overyou have to run 10kmwhich is a long way when you’re feeling exhausted.But it’s great funand all worth it in the end” she says.

Melanie entered her first triathlon at 14 and she won the junior section.Full of confidenceshe entered the National Championshipsand although she had the second fastest swim and the fastest runshe came nowhere.“I was following this man and suddenly we came to the sea.We realised then that we had gone wrong.I ended up cycling 20 kilometres too far.I cried all the way through the running.”

But she did not give up and was determined that she never will.“Sometimes I wish I could stopbecause then the pain would be overbut I am afraid that if I let myself stop just onceI would be tempted(诱惑) to do it again.”Such doggedness draws admiration from Steve Trewthe sport’s director of coaching.“I’ve just been testing her fitness” he says, “and she worked so hard on the running machine that it finally threw her off and into a wall.She had given it everythingand she just kept on.”

Melanie was top junior in this year’s European Triathlon Championshipsfinishing 13th.“I was almost as good as the top three in swimming and runningbut much slower in cycling.That’s why I’m working very hard at it.” She is trying to talk her long?suffering parentswho will carry the 1,300 cost of her trip to New Zealand for this year’s world championshipsinto buying a 2,000 bikeso she can try 25km and 100km races later this year.

But there is another price to pay.“I don’t have a social life”she says.“After two hours’ hard swimming on Friday nightI just want to go to sleep.But I phone and write to the other girls in the team.” What does she talk aboutBoysClothes“Nowhat sort of times they are achieving.”

1.How does Melanie differ from other athletesaccording to the writer?

AShe worries less than they do.

BShe expresses herself differently.

CHer family background is not like theirs.

DHer aims are different from theirs.

2.What upset Melanie during the National Championships?

AShe was tricked by another competitor.

BShe felt she had let her team?mates down.

CShe made a mistake during part of the race.

DShe realized she couldn’t cycle as fast as she thought.

3.What is Melanie trying to persuade her parents to do?

ABuy an expensive bike for her.

BGive her half the cost of a bike.

CLet her compete in longer races.

DPay for her to go to New Zealand.

4.What does Melanie say about her relationships with her team?mates?

AShe would like to see them more often.

BShe only discusses the triathlon with them.

CShe thinks they find her way of life strange.

DShe dislikes discussing boys or clothes with them.

 

The website FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man, Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot of farmers.

As he tells it, the idea for the site was planted when a farmer told him one day that she was recently divorced and would like to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nine o’clock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning.

So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched his website. “You don’t have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly.com, but you do have to have the good old-fashioned traditional values of America’s Heartland.” 

You also have to live in the United States or Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a full membership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the site listed more than 58,000 members. Many of them are farmers in the United States. Others are students or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tells us about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website.

Some farmers have also found love through a group, Singles in Agriculture, which was formed as a nonprofit organization in 1986. It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance, but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and social activities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website, singlesinag.org, says there are more than 1,000 members across the nation and as far away as France.

1.Jerry Miller started singlesinag.org in order to     .

A.help farmers

B.support traditions

C.understand farmers

D.represent farmers

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 indicate?

A.She dislikes city lifestyle.

B.She prefers late night coffee.

C.Country life isn’t well understood.

D.It’s tiring to get up early.

3.Which of the following is true of singlesinag.org?

A.Its services are free.

B.It provides dating services.

C.Only farmers can become its members.

D.Farmers in France can’t benefit from it.

4.The author of the text intends to     .

A.advertise for the two websites

B.introduce two websites

C.encourage social activities

D.urge readers to help farmers

5.It can be inferred from the text that     .

A.all farmers desire marriage

B.farmers are easy to meet new people

C.more farmers get divorced in the USA

D.the Internet helps improve farmers’ social life

 

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