题目内容
Terry likes to play ________ on others, which makes him unpopular among his classmates.
- A.fun
- B.jokes
- C.games
- D.enjoyment
play jokes on与make fun of是同义词组,意为“开某人的玩笑”。
Mark Zukerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, an extremely popular social working website that started in the United States.
Now, millions of student users visit Facebook daily and the website is one of the top ten widely visited sites on the Internet worldwide. College and high school students use Facebook to communicate with friends and share both information and pictures for free. The company earns money through advertising.
Many other companies have been rumored(谣传)to be interested in buying Facebook. Just a few years after Mark started the company, he was approached by Terry Semel, who was the CEO of Yahoo. Terry offered Mark one billion dollars($1,000,000,000) to sell Facebook to Yahoo. Mark said no, though. He stands behind his dreams at the very beginning. He knows the value of the company could fall down; however, he is in this to build something unbelievable, not be bought out by another company.
Maybe he was smart. Now Facebook is rumored to be worth billions of dollars and bigger companies like Microsoft or Google want a share of the company. Some private firms are also interested. Facebook could sell 15billion dollars if Mark decides to sell it at all. Perhaps Mark will just keep working from his California office to continue his dream of building something cool.
【小题1】.Facebook makes money from _____ .
A.members | B.advertisements | C.pictures | D.students |
A.Microsoft | B.Facebook | C.Google | D.Yahoo |
A.Determined | B.Humorous | C.Gentle | D.Selfless |
Mary Jean Price Walls graduated second in her class in 1950.She had high hopes when she applied to a local college,Southwest Missouri State College.But after sending off her application,she spent months waiting for a reply.It never came.
Worse than simply being denied admission(拒绝接收),the school didn’t reply to her at all.It wasn’t a matter of her school records,but of her skin color:Wallsis African American,and in those days,that fact alone closed a lot of doors. “I was sad and I was hurt,”Walls told ABC News.“I did not expect the skin color would affect my application.I thought I could go to university like other students.”
Four years later,the government declared that all schools should not discriminate against(歧视)African Americans— but it was too late for Walls.She’d moved on with her life, becoming a wife and a mother,and working as an elevator operator.She retired last year,at the age of 77.
She stayed quiet about the unfairness she’d faced in Missouri State.Her son,Terry,went through school records and found that she’d been the first black student to ever apply to the college.Today,four percent of the Southwest Missouri State College body is African American—including Terry.
Although it’s too late for Missouri State to change the past,the school is awarding Walls with an honorary degree(荣誉学位)from the school.While she knows it’s too late for herto change the course of her own life with the degree,it’s a chance for her to show her family that Missouri State has changed in the last 60 years,and there’s not a single door closed to them anymore.
【小题1】Walls couldn’t enter the local college because________.
A.her examination performance is too bad |
B.girls were not allowed to go to college |
C.she was an African?American student |
D.her parents had no enough money to support her |
A.her application would be accepted as others’ |
B.it was hard to become a college student |
C.it was impossible for her to be admitted |
D.she could be the best student in her college |
A.He helped his mother get the honorary degree. |
B.He is a good student who teachers like best. |
C.He was admitted by the college once his mother applied to. |
D.He wants to be a government official who can help his mother. |
A.Walls did not fight for her right to education. |
B.The college did not receive Walls’s application. |
C.Walls got a good job after she received the degree. |
D.The government gave Walls some money for the wrongs. |
A.she could change her life with the degree |
B.her dream of going to college has come true |
C.she has been leading a happy life with her family |
D.great changes have taken place in Missouri State |