摘要:I was born the north and sent to school six.

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  I’ve been in the taxicab business for thirty-five years, and I know there is a lot about it that is not so goodTaxicab drivers have to be tough fellows to be able to work in New YorkYou’ve got to   1   the New York   2   eight hours a day these days, so people get the wrong   3   that they are bad

  Actually, taxi drivers are just like other peopleMost of them will   4   as honest fellowsYou read in the   5   almost every week where a taxi driver turns in money or jewels or bonds that people   6   in their cabsIf they weren't honest, you wouldn't be reading those stories in the papers

  One time in Brooklyn, I found a diamond ring in my cabI   7   helping a lady with a lot of packages that day, so I went back to where I had   8   herIt took me almost two days to trace her down in order to return her ring to herI didn't   9   as much as “thank you”Still I felt good   10   I had done what was rightI think I felt better than she did

  I was born and   11   in Ireland and lived there until I was nineteen years oldThen I came to this   12   in 1913 where I held several jobs to earn a few dollars before enlisting(参军)in World War IAfter being discharged(退役), I had a family and bought my own cabLife hasn't been too   13   at times, but my wife takes care of our money and we have a good bit   14   for a rainy day

  When I   15   driving a cab, ParkAvenue was mostly a bunch of coal yardsHoofer's Brewery was right next to where the Waldorf-Astoria is nowI did pretty well,   16   in those days

  In all my years of driving a taxicab, I have   17   had any trouble with the public, not even with drunks

  I believe   18   is one of the greatest gifts there isI know they call it a lot of fancy names these days, like integrity(正直), etcBut it doesn't make any   19   what they call it; it's still what makes a man a good   20  This is my code, and I try to live by

(1)

[  ]

A.

fight

B.

escape

C.

control

D.

forecast

(2)

[  ]

A.

weather

B.

pollution

C.

traffic

D.

condition

(3)

[  ]

A.

suggestion

B.

impression

C.

expression

D.

information

(4)

[  ]

A.

talk

B.

work

C.

drive

D.

wander

(5)

[  ]

A.

websites

B.

papers

C.

posters

D.

magazines

(6)

[  ]

A.

leave

B.

find

C.

give

D.

place

(7)

[  ]

A.

remembered

B.

regretted

C.

continued

D.

tried

(8)

[  ]

A.

noticed

B.

supported

C.

met

D.

dropped

(9)

[  ]

A.

say

B.

overhear

C.

speak

D.

get

(10)

[  ]

A.

though

B.

while

C.

unless

D.

because

(11)

[  ]

A.

employed

B.

married

C.

raised

D.

trained

(12)

[  ]

A.

college

B.

country

C.

company

D.

village

(13)

[  ]

A.

hard

B.

busy

C.

easy

D.

simple

(14)

[  ]

A.

left behind

B.

used up

C.

put away

D.

sorted out

(15)

[  ]

A.

started

B.

considered

C.

recalled

D.

learned

(16)

[  ]

A.

even

B.

only

C.

definitely

D.

maybe

(17)

[  ]

A.

never

B.

always

C.

often

D.

seldom

(18)

[  ]

A.

personality

B.

honesty

C.

security

D.

dignity

(19)

[  ]

A.

sense

B.

profit

C.

difference

D.

progress

(20)

[  ]

A.

servant

B.

customer

C.

businessman

D.

citizen

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  I've been in the taxicab business for thirty-five years, and I know there is a lot about it that is not so good.Taxicab drivers have to be   1   fellows to be able to work in New York.You've got to fight the New York   2   eight hours a day these days, so people get the wrong   3   that they are bad.

  Actually, taxi drivers are just like other people.Most of them will   4   as honest fellows.You read in the   5   almost every week where a taxi driver turns in money or jewels or bonds that people   6   in their cabs.If they weren't honest, you wouldn't be reading those stories in the papers.

  One time in Brooklyn, I found a diamond ring in my cab.I   7   helping a lady with a lot of packages that day, so I went back to where I had   8   her.It took me almost two days to trace her down in order to return her ring to her.I didn't   9   as much as “thank you”.Still I felt good   10   I had done what was right.I think I felt better than she did.

  I was born and   11   in Ireland and lived there until I was nineteen years old.Then I came to this   12   in 1913 where I held several jobs to earn a few dollars before enlisting(参军)in World War I.After being discharged(退役), I had a family and bought my own cab.Life hasn't been too   13   at times, but my wife takes care of our money and we have a good bit   14   for a rainy day.

  When I   15   driving a cab, Park Avenue was mostly a bunch of coal yards.Hoofer's Brewery was right next to where the Waldorf-Astoria is now.I did pretty well,   16   in those days.

  In all my years of driving a taxicab, I have   17   had any trouble with the public, not even with drunks.

  I believe   18   is one of the greatest gifts there is.I know they call it a lot of fancy names these days, like integrity(正直), etc.But it doesn't make any   19   what they call it; it's still what makes a man a good   20  .This is my code, and I try to live by.

(1)

[  ]

A.

cheerful

B.

tough

C.

familiar

D.

popular

(2)

[  ]

A.

weather

B.

pollution

C.

condition

D.

traffic

(3)

[  ]

A.

impression

B.

suggestion

C.

expression

D.

information

(4)

[  ]

A.

talk

B.

perform

C.

behave

D.

wander

(5)

[  ]

A.

websites

B.

papers

C.

posters

D.

magazines

(6)

[  ]

A.

leave

B.

find

C.

give

D.

place

(7)

[  ]

A.

regretted

B.

continued

C.

remembered

D.

tried

(8)

[  ]

A.

noticed

B.

supported

C.

met

D.

dropped

(9)

[  ]

A.

say

B.

overhear

C.

claim

D.

get

(10)

[  ]

A.

though

B.

while

C.

because

D.

unless

(11)

[  ]

A.

raised

B.

married

C.

employed

D.

trained

(12)

[  ]

A.

college

B.

country

C.

company

D.

village

(13)

[  ]

A.

easy

B.

busy

C.

hard

D.

simple

(14)

[  ]

A.

left behind

B.

used up

C.

put away

D.

sorted out

(15)

[  ]

A.

started

B.

considered

C.

recalled

D.

learned

(16)

[  ]

A.

maybe

B.

only

C.

definitely

D.

even

(17)

[  ]

A.

always

B.

never

C.

often

D.

seldom

(18)

[  ]

A.

personality

B.

security

C.

honesty

D.

dignity

(19)

[  ]

A.

sense

B.

profit

C.

difference

D.

progress

(20)

[  ]

A.

servant

B.

customer

C.

businessman

D.

citizen

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  I've been in the taxicab business for thirty-five years, and I know there is a lot about it that is not so good.Taxicab drivers have to be tough fellows to be able to work in New York.You've got to   1   the New York   2   eight hours a day these days, so people get the wrong   3   that they are bad.

  Actually, taxi drivers are just like other people.Most of them will   4   as honest fellows.You read in the   5   almost every week where a taxi driver turns in money or jewels or bonds that people   6   in their cabs.If they weren't honest, you wouldn't be reading those stories in the papers.

  One time in Brooklyn, I found a diamond ring in my cab.I   7   helping a lady with a lot of packages that day, so I went back to where I had   8   her.It took me almost two days to trace her down in order to return her ring to her.I didn't   9   as much as “thank you”.Still I felt good   10   I had done what was right.I think I felt better than she did.

  I was born and   11   in Ireland and lived there until I was nineteen years old.Then I came to this   12   in 1913 where I held several jobs to earn a few dollars before enlisting(参军)in World War I.After being discharged(退役), I had a family and bought my own cab.Life hasn't been too   13   at times, but my wife takes care of our money and we have a good bit   14   for a rainy day.

  When I   15   driving a cab, ParkAvenue was mostly a bunch of coal yards.Hoofer's Brewery was right next to where the Waldorf-Astoria is now.I did pretty well,   16   in those days.

  In all my years of driving a taxicab, I have   17   had any trouble with the public, not even with drunks.

  I believe   18   is one of the greatest gifts there is.I know they call it a lot of fancy names these days, like integrity(正直), etc.But it doesn't make any   19   what they call it; it's still what makes a man a good   20  .This is my code, and I try to live by.

(1)

[  ]

A.

fight

B.

escape

C.

control

D.

forecast

(2)

[  ]

A.

weather

B.

pollution

C.

traffic

D.

condition

(3)

[  ]

A.

suggestion

B.

impression

C.

expression

D.

information

(4)

[  ]

A.

talk

B.

work

C.

drive

D.

wander

(5)

[  ]

A.

websites

B.

papers

C.

posters

D.

magazines

(6)

[  ]

A.

leave

B.

find

C.

give

D.

place

(7)

[  ]

A.

remembered

B.

regretted

C.

continued

D.

tried

(8)

[  ]

A.

noticed

B.

supported

C.

met

D.

dropped

(9)

[  ]

A.

say

B.

overhear

C.

speak

D.

get

(10)

[  ]

A.

though

B.

while

C.

unless

D.

because

(11)

[  ]

A.

employed

B.

married

C.

raised

D.

trained

(12)

[  ]

A.

college

B.

country

C.

company

D.

village

(13)

[  ]

A.

hard

B.

busy

C.

easy

D.

simple

(14)

[  ]

A.

left behind

B.

used up

C.

put away

D.

sorted out

(15)

[  ]

A.

started

B.

considered

C.

recalled

D.

learned

(16)

[  ]

A.

even

B.

only

C.

definitely

D.

maybe

(17)

[  ]

A.

never

B.

always

C.

often

D.

seldom

(18)

[  ]

A.

personality

B.

honesty

C.

security

D.

dignity

(19)

[  ]

A.

sense

B.

profit

C.

difference

D.

progress

(20)

[  ]

A.

servant

B.

customer

C.

businessman

D.

citizen

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In the kitchen of my mother’s houses there has always been a wooden stand (木架) with a small notepad (记事本) and a hole for a pencil.

I’m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can’t be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely  the original one.

 “I’m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Can’t you afford a pen?”

My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly  well. I’ve  always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in those days.”

Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”

This story—which happened before I was born—reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is, as a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have travelled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible (看不到的) exhibits at every meal.

1.Why has the author’s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?

A.To leave messages.

B.To list her everyday tasks.

C.To note down maths problems.

D.To write down a flash of inspiration.

2.What is the author’s original opinion about the wooden stand?

A.It has great value for the family.

B.It needs to be replaced by a better one.

C.It brings her back to her lonely childhood.

D.It should be passed on to the next generation.

3.The author feels embarrassed for             .

A.blaming her mother wrongly

B.giving her mother a lot of trouble

C.not making good use of time as her mother did

D.not making any breakthrough in her field

4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.The mother is successful in her career.

B.The family members like travelling.

C.The author had little time to play when young.

D.The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.

5.In the author’s mind, her mother is             .

A.strange in behaviour

B.keen on her research

C.fond of collecting old things

D.careless about her appearance

 

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