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crossing the street, and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital. There, when he came
to now and again, the man repeatedly called for his son.
From a worn letter located in his pocket, an emergency room nurse learned that his son was a
marine stationed in North Carolina. Apparently there were no other relatives.
Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn, and a request for the boy to
rush to Brooklyn was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps camp.
Because time was short--- the patient was dying--- the Red Cross man and an officer set out in an
army vehicle. They found the young man walking through some marshes (沼泽) in a military exercise.
He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the only plane that might enable him to reach his dying
father.
It was dusk when the young marine walked into the entrance lobby of Kings County Hospital. A
nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
"Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the
patient's eyes opened. The medicine he had been given for the pain from his heart attack made his eyes
weak and he could only see the shadow of the young man in Marine Corps uniform standing outside
the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man's
weak ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair, so the marine
could sit by the bed.
Nights are long in hospitals, but all through the night the young marine sat there in the dimly lit ward
(病房), holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength. Occasionally, the nurse
urged the marine to rest for a while. He refused.
Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the marine was there, but he paid no attention to her and
the night noises of the hospital --- the banging of an oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff exchanging
greetings, the cries and breathing of other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words.
The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son through most of the night.
It was nearly dawn when the patient died. The marine placed the lifeless hand he had been holding
on the bed, and went to inform the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he smoked a cigarette, his
first since he got to the hospital.
Finally, she returned to the nurse's station, where he was waiting. She started to offer words of
sympathy, but the marine interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked.
"He was your father," she answered, shocked.
"No, he wasn't," the marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
"Why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked.
"I knew immediately there'd been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just
wasn't here. When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, I guessed he really
needed me. So I stayed. "
With that, the marine turned and left the hospital. Two days later a message came in from the North
Carolina Marine Corps base informing the Brooklyn Red Cross that the real son was on his way to
Brooklyn for his father's funeral. It turned out there had been two marines with the same name and
similar numbers in the camp. Someone in the personnel office had pulled out the wrong record.
But the wrong marine had become the right son at the right time. And he proved, in a very human
way, that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.
B. because the old man repeatedly called for his son
C. from a letter found in the old man's pocket
D. form the old man's relatives
B. he was participating in a military exercise
C. he and his fellow soldiers were stuck in marshes
D. he was already with the old man
B. the dying man said a few words to the young man
C. the young marine offered him comfort in the last few hours of the old man's life
D. the night was cold and long, with people coming and going all night
B. when the nurse sensed something strange
C. before the marine came to the nurse's station
D. as soon as he arrived
B. carelessness on the part of someone in the personnel office
C. the wrong records kept in the North Carolina Marine Corps base
D. the wrong information provided by the Brooklyn Red Cross
means that ______.
B. the marine did not tell the truth at the hospital until some time later
C. the marine told the real story about him and the old man
D. the marine made the right decision about what he should do
Sea lions and seals may swim in cold ocean water, but even they get chilly sometimes. Seeing an injured seal wrapped in a blanket at a marine(海的) mammal center gave Haley Humes and Hayley Jeffries an idea for a special Girl Scout project. They decided to make blankets to keep injured animals warm. They would give these blankets to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California.
“We knew we wanted to help animals,” Haley said. “We went to the center to ask questions about what they needed. They don’t have a heated floor, and all the babies crowded together to stay warm.”
Friends since kindergarten, Haley and Hayley made 12 blankets to keep the Marine Mammal Center’s seals and sea lions warm. Using fun images like Winnie-the-Pooh, the girls took two hours to make each blanket. The first sea lion to test out a blanket looked pretty in pink.
“It was a sick baby and really liked it,” Haley said. “It curled up in it right away.”
“The blankets are beautiful and the animals love them!” said the Mammal Center’s Michele Hunter. “It’s nice to see children taking pride in their work and doing something to help animals.”
During the project, the girls took dozens of pictures for the PowerPoint presentations they gave to Girl Scout leaders. Those presentations helped Haley and Hayley raise $250 to buy additional supplies the center needed.
This was the first project the girls ever worked on and took months to plan and carry out.
“I learned that in order to make something happen, you have to take it slowly and step by step,” Hayley said. Just as important, the girls discovered that two people really can make a difference. “Knowing you’re making a difference……with these animals is amazing,” Haley said. “It was like the animals became my new friends.”
The Pacific Marine Mammal Center cares for sea lions and seals, as well as for other marine mammals. Since opening in 1971,the center has saved more than 5,000 injured marine mammals.
【小题1】 What does the underlined word“ chilly” in Paragraph 1 mean?
| A．Sick. | B．Cold. | C．Afraid. | D．Bored. |
| A．decided to help animals | B．asked Girl Scout for help |
| C．went to the animal center to work. | D．called on others to protect animals |
| A．They raised $2,500 for the Mammal Center. |
| B．They made 120 blankets by themselves. |
| C．It took them an hour to make a blanket. |
| D．They felt great about what they did. |
| A．Difficult. | B．Successful. | C．Experimental. | D．Dangerous. |
| A．has a history of about 40 years |
| B．has an advanced heating system |
| C．has saved ten thousand animals so far |
| D．protects both land and marine mammals |
Sea lions and seals may swim in cold ocean water, but even they get chilly sometimes. Seeing an injured seal wrapped in a blanket at a marine(海的) mammal center gave Haley Humes and Hayley Jeffries an idea for a special Girl Scout project. They decided to make blankets to keep injured animals warm. They would give these blankets to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California.
“We knew we wanted to help animals,” Haley said. “We went to the center to ask questions about what they needed. They don’t have a heated floor, and all the babies crowded together to stay warm.”
Friends since kindergarten, Haley and Hayley made 12 blankets to keep the Marine Mammal Center’s seals and sea lions warm. Using fun images like Winnie-the-Pooh, the girls took two hours to make each blanket. The first sea lion to test out a blanket looked pretty in pink.
“It was a sick baby and really liked it,” Haley said. “It curled up in it right away.”
“The blankets are beautiful and the animals love them!” said the Mammal Center’s Michele Hunter. “It’s nice to see children taking pride in their work and doing something to help animals.”
During the project, the girls took dozens of pictures for the PowerPoint presentations they gave to Girl Scout leaders. Those presentations helped Haley and Hayley raise $250 to buy additional supplies the center needed.
This was the first project the girls ever worked on and took months to plan and carry out.
“I learned that in order to make something happen, you have to take it slowly and step by step,” Hayley said. Just as important, the girls discovered that two people really can make a difference. “Knowing you’re making a difference……with these animals is amazing,” Haley said. “It was like the animals became my new friends.”
The Pacific Marine Mammal Center cares for sea lions and seals, as well as for other marine mammals. Since opening in 1971,the center has saved more than 5,000 injured marine mammals.
1. What does the underlined word“ chilly” in Paragraph 1 mean?
|
A．Sick. |
B．Cold. |
C．Afraid. |
D．Bored. |
2. When Haley and Hayley saw an injured seal wrapped in a blanket, they_____.
|
A．decided to help animals |
B．asked Girl Scout for help |
|
C．went to the animal center to work. |
D．called on others to protect animals |
3. What can we learn about Haley and Hayley from the text?
|
A．They raised $2,500 for the Mammal Center. |
|
B．They made 120 blankets by themselves. |
|
C．It took them an hour to make a blanket. |
|
D．They felt great about what they did. |
4. Which of the following words can best describe the work of Haley and Hayley?
|
A．Difficult. |
B．Successful. |
C．Experimental. |
D．Dangerous. |
5. According to the text, the Mammal Center_____.
|
A．has a history of about 40 years |
|
B．has an advanced heating system |
|
C．has saved ten thousand animals so far |
|
D．protects both land and marine mammals |
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President Bush may talk about a plan to Mars, but Bruce Jones thinks there is still a healthy thirst for exploration into underwater worlds on our own planet. After growing up with a grandfather in the marine construction① business, Jones quickly got a feel for the water. He started diving at age 9 and, by the 1980s, began offering advice for those interested in the submarine② business. By 1993, he was running his own company, U.S. Submarines, which designs and builds submarines for others.
Jones has $40 million spent in building a hotel where the most expensive rooms will be 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Unlike the Jules Undersea Lodge — the only undersea hotel now, just off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. — guests at the Poseidon won’t need to put on a wet suit to their rooms. They also won’t need to worry about changing pressure levels since the rooms will be kept at above-surface pressure. Instead, they can move easily to their $1,500-a-night underwater rooms by escalator③.
“I think there are a large number of people who would be interested,” said Jones, “including anyone who is looking for a different experience.”
Each room will feature strong walls that look out onto coral④ gardens. There will be controls in each room that guests can use to change the lighting of the underwater worlds outside their windows and to provide food to fish swimming just outside. It sounds exciting— but will it happen? It’s hard to say.
“By now I envisioned⑤ we’d have whole underwater cities,” Cooper said. “It’s about time some of these visions became reality.”
Notes:
① marine construction 海洋建筑
② submarine adj. 海下的
③ escalator n. 自动梯
④ coral n. 珊瑚
⑤ envision v. 展望
1. The first paragraph takes President Bush for example in order to ______.
A. praise President Bush’s plan to Mars
B. humorously introduce the main subject to readers
C. support President Bush’s plan to Mars
D. show Bruce Jones is against President Bush’s plan
2. According to the text, who had a great effect on Bruce Jones?
A. His father. B. His friends. C. His grandfather D. His grandmother
3. According to Bruce Jones’s undersea hotel, we know that ______.
A. fish outside can be seen through the hotel’s walls
B. the hotel has been built and came into use
C. it will be easy to swim into the underwater rooms
D. visitors will have to wear wet suits against water
4. According to Cooper’s words, his attitudes towards the underwater hotels are ______.
A. disappointed B. critical C. objective D. hopeful
查看习题详情和答案>>Did you know that vegetables can grow in the climates they are not used to? Cool climate vegetables like asparagus (芦笋) are now able to be grown in places as hot as Hawaii. In Hawaii, marine (海的)engineers have been able to actually let you believe such vegetables that they are living in cooler climates. In that way they grow faster and taste better. What these engineers have been using is very simply cold sea water. How did they use it? They place pipes in the soil and cold water flowing through them cools the earth. This causes plant growth and enables gardeners in tropical climates (热带气候) to grow crops from cooler climates. Also some of these pipes are exposed to the air and they make the air “wet” and thus water the gardens. What especially makes people happy about this process (过程) is that nothing to the natural conditions is being used. Another new use for cold ocean water is to cool buildings. Engineers believe that for example the entire west coast of the
72. What does the new system enable the gardeners to do?
A. Water the field with seawater. B. Grow asparagus in hot places.
C. Grow cool climate vegetables in hot areas. D. Cool the soil.
A. water the farms B. water the gardens
C. cool the air D. make the earth cool
74. What is the report mainly about?
A. How to grow vegetables in hot areas. B. How to grow crops in tropical climates.
C. How to cool the soil. D. How to use sea water.
75. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. sea water can act as an air-conditioner
B. asparagus are only grown in hot places
C. the writer wants to tell us something about scientific advance
D. sea water has many advantages
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