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Big Ben

  Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a huge clock in London. London is the capital of England. This clock has four faces. So,no matter where you stand,you can read the time on the face of Big Ben. Each face is the size of a double decker(层)bus. The hands are about four meters long. It is about the size of two people standing on top of each other. If you go to London,you may want to visit the Houses of Parliament. There you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower in the Houses of Parliament. Maybe you will hear it as well as see it. The huge clock makes such a loud noise. “Ding dong,ding dong,”it goes every quarter of an hour.
  The clock was named after a big man. He was Sir Benjamin Hall. This man did much building work in London many years ago.

68. Big Ben is ______________.
  A. a double decker bus B. a huge clock C. the name of Ben    D. a building

69. The clock strikes every _______ of an hour.
  A. ten minutes   B. fifteen minutes C. thirty minutes  D. forty-five minutes

70. You can read the time of Big Ben _________.
  A. at the top of the clock tower    B. in the Houses of parliament 
  C. on the hands of the huge clock   D. on the four faces of the clock

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The Parking-Lot(停车场)Sweeper

  Both my parents came from towns in Mexico.I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.

  Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how   1  we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities.They   2   us with the ideas of family, faith and love.

  I got my first   3   job when I was ten.My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist.He   4   space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr.Ben’s Coiffure.

  The owner of the shopping center   5   my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three   6   a week, which   7   getting up at 3 a.m.Mom and I helped   8  dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand.It took two to three hours to clean the lot.I   9   sleep in the car on the way home.

  I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have   10   a lifetime.I obtained discipline(自律)and the importance of work, and learned at a(n)  11   age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests-in my   12  , school, homework and a job.This   13   helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a full   14   of college preparation courses.

  The hard work   15   off.I attended the U.S.Military Academy and went on to   16   graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard.  17  , I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly(州议会).In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have   18   forgotten those nights in the parking lot.The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to   19   for themselves and their families, that is   20   we should honor.

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  Benjamin Franklin invented a lot of things which made people's life easier.One of his earlier inventions was paddles for swimming.Ben had   1   if there was some way to help people   2   faster.He thought hard and slowly a picture of swimming paddles grew in his   3  .The paddles must be neither too big nor too small.The wood which was used   4   the paddles must be neither too heavy nor too   5  

  He began to work on the paddles and a few days later the paddles were finished.And then on the next Saturday afternoon Ben decided to   6   them out at Green's pond where there were about a hundred boys waiting.All of them had heard of Ben's idea and wanted to see whether the paddles would   7  

  They were talking to each other,“What's to be done if the paddles don't work?”“What if he goes down?”

  When Ben got into the   8  , he began to paddle.At first he swam   9  , then faster and faster until he was going through the water like a fish.The boys had   10   seen such a fast swimmer.The paddles did work.All of the boys cheered loudly for Ben, jumping up and down with joy.

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wondered

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heart

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family

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hand

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mind

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light

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make

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work

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think

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welcome

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act

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work

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water

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sea

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slowly

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carefully

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easily

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happily

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The Parking-Lot(停车场)Sweeper

  Both my parents came from towns in Mexico.I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.

  Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how   1   we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities.They   2   us with the ideas of family, faith and love.

  I got my first   3   job when I was ten.My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist.He   4   space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr. Ben’s Coiffure.

  The owner of the shopping center   5   my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three   6   a week, which   7   getting up at 3 a.m. Mom and I helped   8   dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand.It took two to three hours to clean the lot.I   9   sleep in the car on the way home.

  I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have   10   a lifetime.I obtained discipline(自律)and the importance of work, and learned at a(n)  11   age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests——in my   12  , school, homework and a job.This   13   helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a   14   of college preparation courses.

  The hard work   15   off.I attended the U.S.Military Academy and went on to   16   graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard.  17  , I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly(州议会).In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have   18   forgotten those nights in the parking lot.The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to   19   for themselves and their families, that is   20   we should honor.

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[  ]

A.

important

B.

different

C.

competitive

D.

fortunate

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[  ]

A.

mixed

B.

filled

C.

piled

D.

left

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true

B.

new

C.

real

D.

good

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hired

B.

bought

C.

cleaned

D.

created

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reduced

B.

afforded

C.

collected

D.

charged

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mornings

B.

evenings

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dawns

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nights

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meant

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overcame

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lift

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empty

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throw

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hold

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must

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need

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kept

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mind

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really

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piece

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length

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mass

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made

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paid

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receive

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everything

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When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’

They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know.

When they couldn’t tell him, Ben tried to find out for himself.

Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, ‘That is Ben Franklin! He’s always finding out something new!’

Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water.

One day Ben said to himself: ‘Why can’t the wind help me float across the water? And I’m going to try.’ Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite string and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air.Then Ben jumped into the water.

The wind blew the kite high into the air. Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the other side, and he had not worked at all.

One boy shouted, ‘Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without any work!’

‘Yes,’ said another. ‘He’s always finding new ways to do things.’

56. When he was only a child, Ben       

    A. liked to fly a kite by himself       

    B. always asked easy questions

    C. always liked to play with water     

    D. always liked to find out how things worked

57. His father and brothers      

    A. couldn’t answer all his questions    

    B. could answer all his questions

    C. tried hard to find out something new for him

    D. were too busy to answer his questions

58. How did Ben Franklin float across the water?

    A. The other boy took him across it.  

    B. The water carried him across it.

    C. The flying kite took him across it.                  

    D. A boat took him across it.

59. He found out many things that      

    A. children didn’t know               B. his father knew

    C. people didn’t know                D. most people knew

60. From the story we can know that young Ben Franklin liked ____________.

A. using his mind             B. using his hands

C. making kites              D. flying kites

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