The man sitting opposite Robert was the Financial Controller. Everybody called him “the FC” for short. He made all the decisions about money. Robert needed some more. That was why he had to see him. The two men did not get on very well. In fact, they had always disliked each other.

   “Your request is out of the question,” the FC said. Robert had difficulty in controlling himself, but he managed somehow. He explained that he wanted the money in order to make more programmes.

    “And why do you want to do that?” the FC asked sharply. Again, Robert almost lost his temper. “Because more and more people are listening to my department’s programmes. There’s great demand for them,” he answered.

    The FC did not seem to believe him. But Robert had a report on the numbers of listeners to all EBC programmes. The FC became less confident (自信). Robert threw the report down on the table and told him to read it.

    The FC looked at it in silence. The figures (数字) proved that he had been wrong, but he did not want to admit it. “Well,” he finally said, “I may have made a small mistake.” Robert noticed the word “may.” He got up to leave. But he had the feeling that he would get the money after all.

In the story the Financial Controller was a person who was in charge of________.      

   A. Robert’s department’s programmes.        B. EBC programmes.

   C. EBC money.                          D. both B and C.

“Your request is out of the question.” Here “out of the question”means_______.

   A. without any question   B. with some question.    C. impossible.   D. possible.

Robert decided to make more programmes because________.

   A. he wanted to meet the needs of the listeners.

   B. “the FC”disliked him

   C. the members of his department wanted him to do so.

   D. he wanted to show himself off.

Why were more and more people listening to Robert’s programmes?

   A. Because he always lost his temper (脾气).

   B. Because he disliked “the FC.”

   C. Because the programmes were rich and to the taste of the listeners.

   D. We don’t know.

Who do you think won the argument(争论)in the end?

   A. The Financial Controller.    B. Robert.    C. Nobody.    D. The listeners.

I got my first driver’s license in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte,North Carolina.Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman.Henry and I were living in Baltimore,Maryland.Two weeks before my 20th birthday,Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon.When I got to the office and showed to the man behind the counter my North Carolina driver’s license,ready to renew,the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21.“Mr. Henry Smith,your husband,will have to sign for you,” he said.
I argued,pointing to a very large belly(肚子) of mine,“I am married.I am having a baby.Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?”He answered coldly.“It’s the law,madam.”
Henry encouraged me to calm down,just go ahead and get the license and be done with it.“No,”I said.I refused to have him sign for me.So I left without a Maryland license.
I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle office and renewed my NC license by mail--using my name Susan Brown.And thus it was for the next twelve years.Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license.By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland,and I had to take the Maryland driver’s exam.Since then I just go in and renew every four years--sign the name Susan Brown,have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive.
【小题1】Susan got her first driver’s license_______.

A.before she got married to Henry
B.when she was twenty years old
C.after she finished high school
D.when she just moved to Maryland
【小题2】Susan failed to renew her license the first time in Maryland because_____.
A.she was forbidden to drive by Maryland law
B.she lacked driving experience in Maryland
C.she was to give birth to a baby soon
D.she insisted on signing for herself
【小题3】We can infer from the text that in the U.S.___________.
A.American males should serve in the army
B.different states may have different laws
C.people have to renew their licenses in their home states
D.women should adopt their husbands’ family names after marriage

Our cat has a sweet nature, and she can let us know what she wants. When we fail to meet her needs, she gently leads us in the proper direction. When I forget to fill her water bowl early in the morning, she runs after my legs, and then pushes me in the direction of her bowl. She doesn’t get irritated (生气的); instead, she expresses her wishes in the best way. And I always understand what she is telling me.

One day I found myself envying (羡慕) her simple expression. How many times had I expected my husband or my children to know my wants without my ever giving voice to them? How many times had I been disappointed that they couldn’t understand when I needed a hug, a compliment (恭维) or a chocolate bar?

After a pleasant afternoon with my husband, I wanted to stop somewhere nice and have dinner, but he didn’t understand my hints (暗示). “Couldn’t you see that I wanted to go out to dinner?” I complained when he pulled into our driveway.

“Why didn’t you say so? I can’t read your mind,” he answered in impatience. His words gave me pause. Had I expected him to read my mind? Why hadn’t I expressed my desire more clearly? I realized I had fallen into the female trap of “If you love me, you can read my mind.”

Now, I state my needs clearly and directly. I look at my cat and know she agrees.

1.Why was the author disappointed in her husband or her children?

A.Her husband didn’t give her a hug.

B.Her children didn’t give her a chocolate bar.

C.They didn’t give her a compliment.

D.They didn’t understand her mind.

2.What will the author do if she wants something from her husband now?

A.She will give him her hints.                B.She lets him guess what she wants.

C.She tells him her needs directly.            D.She buys what she wants herself.

3.What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph?

A.I realized what I did was wrong.

B.I stopped and didn’t go with my husband.

C.My husband prevented me from going on.

D.My husband stopped me from saying something.

 

Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius.“ There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.

But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “ Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

1.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Edison invented the electric light.

B.Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

C.Edison has changed the life of many other people.

D.Few men in history can change other people’s life.

2.Edison thought              .

A.he could be happy if he was a genius

B.genius plays the most important part in one’s success

C.hard work could do better than genius

D.genius could do better than hard work

3.Edison was             .

A.very much interested in nature

B.interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C.interested in changing people’s ideas

D.uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

4.The last sentence in the passage most probably implies           .

A.life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

B.Edison made 100 inventions in his life

C.Edison was able to live and work for 100 years

D.People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years’ work

 

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网