题目内容
- What gave him the chance to go to a college to go on with his studies ?
-______ a scholarship.
| A.To win | B.Winning | C.Having winned | D.Won |
B
解析
A number of times Rosemary edged closer to Gordon , meaning to take his arm, but he edged away from her. She thought that she had offended him deeply, and that he was disappointed because she had pushed him away. She would have apologized if he had given her half a chance. But as a matter of fact, he was scarcely thinking of this any longer. It was the money business that was troubling him now. And the fact was that he would soon have to confess it. What nonsense it made of all he had said! Presently she stopped him, and swung him round to face her. “Gordon, why won’t you speak to me?” she said. “Are you still angry with me for what happened just now?”
“No, I was never angry with you. You’re not to blame. Something else has been worrying me all the way along, I’ve only eight pence left. I had just enough money for today when we started out, but that dinner bill upset everything. Can you lend me some money?’
Rosemary was amazed. “What does it matter if you’ve only eight pence left? How can you let yourself be worried by a thing like that? As though I objected to lending you money, aren’t I always telling you that I want to pay for myself when we go out together?’
“Yes, and you know how I hate you paying.”
“Oh, how silly you are.” She said. “Do you think there’s anything to be ashamed of in having no money?”
Gordon’s face went bright pink. “Of course there is ! It’s the only thing in the world there is to be ashamed of. I can’t be a complete human being—I don’t feel a human being –unless I’ve got money in my pocket.”
【小题1】What gave Rosemary the idea that she had hurt Gordon’s feelings deeply?
| A.He didn’t say he was sorry. |
| B.He pushed her away when she tried to take his arm. |
| C.He didn’t say he was sorry. |
| D.He wouldn’t let her touch him. |
| A.she wanted to ask him a question | B.she wanted to see his face |
| C.she was angry with him | D.he had been rude |
| A.he would lose some of his self-respect | B.she would refuse to |
| C.he would have to confess his loss | D.she would be angry |
| A.tell her he had a little money left | B.accept any money from her |
| C.blame her for making him angry | D.have such an expensive dinner |
"Mark Twain" was the name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) when he wrote books. His father was a lawyer, but a poor one, who lived at Florida, Missouri. The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching. He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met. His father died when he was very young, and then there was even less money than before.
Many of the men in this part of America worked in the ships on the great River Mississippi, and he did this himself at one time (1857).
Where did he find the name "Mark Twain"? It came from the great river itself. It was part of one of the cries used by men who worked in the ships. When a man called "By the mark twain!" he meant that the river was "two marks deep" there, that is to say, six feet deep ( "Twain" is an old form of the work "Two".) Samuel Clemens often heard these words when he was young, and he used them as a penname all his life.
During his work on the Mississippi he met travelers of all kinds, and this helped him a great deal when he started to write. But the number of travelers became smaller when war started in America in 1861. Many of the great ships on the river stopped work. Samuel left then and went to Nevada with his brother, who was at that time Governor of Nevada. There, near the town of Carson, Samuel became a gold miner, but he never made much money at the time. He soon saw that life in the gold mines was not for him. He also tried writing for the newspapers in Nevada, and this seemed more hopeful. He found that he could write.
He went to Europe in 1867 and visited France and Italy. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon, and two years later he was spending nearly all his time writing. Among his books is his own story (1908).
He is now always known as Mark Twain, and many people do not even know that his family name was Clemens. He traveled in America and in England, and went to Oxford in 1907. He was one of the great American writers of the time, and could make his readers laugh – a thing which few writers can do. He died in 1910.
【小题1】"Mark Twain" was _________.
| A.a famous American writer | B.name of a book |
| C.a great river in America | D.a large ship |
| A.his father died too early |
| B.the family was very poor |
| C.he disliked school very much |
| D.he could learn what he liked from the people he met |
| A.His poor childhood | B.The Mississippi river |
| C.All kinds of travelers he met | D.His brother |
| A.Samuel loved writing from his early age |
| B.Samuel did not love writing at the beginning |
| C.his writings to the newspaper were successful |
| D.his brother encouraged him to write more |
| A.write a lot for his readers |
| B.make a lot of money for his family |
| C.cause his readers to laugh |
| D.travel everywhere he wanted |
A 33-year-old financial analyst in California recently quit his job to devote himself to an unpaid job teaching math on the Internet, and his lessons are reaching almost 100,000 people a month. Salman Khan’s voice is heard every day on the net --- by tens of thousands of students around the world who are hungry for help learning math. He has posted 1,200 lessons on YouTube ... lessons that appear on an electronic blackboard, which range from basic addition to advanced mathematics for science and finance. And they are free.
Khan lives in Silicon Valley, with his wife, a doctor, and their new baby. He got the idea for his “Khan Academy” four years ago, when he taught a young cousin how to convert kilograms to grams. With Khan’s help, the cousin got good at math, and Khan began a new career.
Now, Khan records his lessons himself, but he never goes on camera. “It feels like my voice in their head. You’re looking at it and it feels like someone’s over your shoulder talking in your ear, as opposed to someone at the blackboard, which is distant from you,” he said.
When Springfield High School in Palo Alto, California invited Khan to speak in person --- he immediately connected to the students there.
The idea of short lessons that can be played over and over again attracted high school senior Bridget Meaney. She says she had trouble with math in the seventh grade. “I think the teachers are good, but they can’t teach at a speed that’s perfect for everyone,” she said. “I like the idea of learning something in class but then going back and pressing pause or rewind and actually getting a deeper understanding of it.”
Originally, Khan kept his lessons short because of YouTube restrictions. Now, he thinks short is better. “Education researchers now tell me that 10 minutes is how long someone can have a high level of concentration. And anything beyond that and your brain switches off,” he said.
For Khan, teaching math, science, and finance is just the beginning. He says he’s ready to expand his YouTube site to include other subjects as well.
【小题1】What gave Khan the idea of teaching math online?
| A.His success in helping his cousin learn math. |
| B.His discovery that many students found learning math difficult. |
| C.A suggestion made to him at a local high school. |
| D.His interest in Internet teaching. |
| A.He’s too shy to show his face on camera. |
| B.It’s restricted by YouTube for education videos. |
| C.He wants to keep distance from the viewers. |
| D.He wants to create a more relaxed learning atmosphere. |
| A.Khan travels to many schools to promote his lessons |
| B.Khan plans to include more subjects in the future |
| C.Khan gives live math lessons every day for free |
| D.Khan set up the Khan Academy with his wife |
| A.Khan teaches seventh grade math better than her teacher. |
| B.The lessons can be watched repeatedly until fully understood. |
| C.She can perfectly follow the pace of Khan’s teaching. |
| D.She cannot concentrate when learning in class. |
| A.Keeping the lessons short can ensure better concentration. |
| B.YouTube recommends short lessons for its site. |
| C.Short lessons encourage students to return to the website. |
| D.Students enjoy short mathematics lessons more. |