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"Tomorrow we'll see the Golden Gate Bridge (金门桥)," said Peter. "I've never seen a golden bridge before."
Peter's father smiled, but said nothing. Peter would soon see the bridge. The next morning, his father took Peter to the bridge. How big it looked! And the bridge was red!
"It isn't named for its color," said his father. "It's named for the Golden Gate."
"What's the Golden Gate?" asked Peter.
"A gate is either an opening, or a thing that closes an opening," said his father. "The Golden Gate is an opening in the land. Water from the sea comes through this opening into San Francisco Bay (海湾)."
"Oh," said Peter. "And the bridge is over the opening. But why is the opening called the 'Golden Gate'?"
"Years ago men came here to look for gold (黄金). Many came by ship. For them it was a gate to gold."
"Well, I still think the bridge should look golden."
When Peter got home, he sent a letter to a newspaper. In the letter he said: "Red is not the right color for the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge should look golden, the way most people think it does."
Peter sent all the money he had saved with his letter. "This money is to help paint (油漆) the bridge," he wrote.
Many people read Peter's letter. Right away, things began to happen! Some people sent money. A Big company (公司) gave real gold.
But not all the people wanted to change the color of the bridge. Will the Golden Gate Bridge ever be golden?
1. Peter's father smiled when he heard his son's words because ________.
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A. he was pleased with his son's words
B. he had nothing to say
C. Peter had never seen a golden bridge
D. Peter didn't know why the bridge was called "Golden Gate Bridge"
2. The Golden Gate Bridge was ____________.
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A. golden
B. an opening in land
C. red
D. both B and C
3. The Golden Gate ______________.
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A. looked very big
B. was an opening to gold for men looking for gold years ago
C. was over San Francisco Bay
D. all A, B and C
4. To help change the bridge's color, Peter sent __________.
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A. his money to a newspaper
B. some of his money to a newspaper
C. his letter to a newspaper and his money to a company
D. all his money to a newspaper after a company had given real gold
5. Peter was sure that ___________ would agree with him.
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A. some people
B. all the people
C. many people
D. one or two big companies
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The police in a big city were searching for a thief. At last they caught him. But while they were taking photos of him from the front, from the left, from the right, with a hat, without a hat, he suddenly hit the policeman and ran away. They tried to catch him. But he got away.
Then a week later, the telephone rang in the police office, and somebody said, “You are looking for Bill Cross, aren't you?”
“Yes.”
“Well, he left here for Waterbridge an hour ago.”
Waterbridge was a small town about 100 kilometers away from the city. The city police at once sent four different photos of the thief to the police in Waterbridge.
Less than twelve hours later they got a telephone call from the police in Waterbridge.
“We have caught three of the men,” they said proudly, “and will catch the fourth this evening.”
1．The police in the big city took ________ photos of the thief.
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2．Bill Cross was the name of ________.
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A．the thief
B．the man who phoned the police
C．a policeman
D．a bridge between the city and the town
3．The police were told that the thief had gone to Waterbridge ________.
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A．a week before
B．an hour before
C．twelve hours before
D．by twelve o'clock
4．Which of the following is true?
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A．The city police gave the wrong information.
B．The city police gave the wrong photos.
C．The town police caught three thieves.
D．The town police caught three people.
5．From this story we know that the police in Waterbridge ________.
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In 1883, an imaginative engineer named John Roebling decided to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with Long Island. However, bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was a pipe dream. It was not practical. It had never been done before.
But Roebling refused to listen to them. He thought about the bridge day and night and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. After much discussion and persuasion he convinced his son Washington, who was a promising engineer himself, that the bridge in fact could be built.
Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished. With great excitement, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.
The project started well, but several months after it began, a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was so seriously injured that he was never able to walk, talk or even move again.
"We told them so", "Crazy men and their crazy dreams", "It's foolish to chase wild visions", the critics said and most thought the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.
Washington's wife tried to inspire and pass on her husband's enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay in his hospital room, an idea suddenly hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this finger and tapping it on his wife's arm, he slowly developed a code to communicate with her. Then he used this method to tell his wife what the engineers should do. It seemed crazy but the project was under way again. For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm, until the bridge was finally completed.
Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances.
1._ What did most people think about Roebling's idea to build the bridge?
A. It would never become a reality. B. Washington was not experienced enough.
C. It would take a lot of time. D. Finding the money would be impossible.
2._The underlined word `daunted' (para. 6) is closest in meaning to '______'.
A. unpleasant B. scared C. amazed D. determined
3._ Which of the following shows the correct order of the events that happened in the story?
a. Roebling convinced his son.
b. Washington found a new way to communicate.
c. They hired the crew.
d. The bridge was completed.
e. Roebling wanted to build a bridge.
f. There was a tragic accident.
A. e, a, c, f, d, b B. e, a, f, b, c, d C. e, f, a, b, c, d D. e, a, c, f, b, d
4._ What can we learn about Washington's wife?
A. She knew sign language very well.
B. She was devoted to her husband.
C. She developed a code to communicate with her husband.
D. She helped her husband design the plan.
5._ What does the story tell us?
A. Success will come with the passing of time.
B. Struggles are exactly what we need in our lives.
C. Even the most distant dream can be realised with a never-say-die attitude.
D. The people who make a difference in our life should be remembered forever.
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It's 7 am Kyoto (东京), Japan, and the taxi company has just called a second time to say they can't find my house. 1 I tell him directions. even a blind person can 2 , look impatiently at my watch, and wait. Only two hours remain until my 3 leaves
and it's an hour-and-a-half trip to Osaka airport.
The telephone rings 4 .“Terribly sorry,”begins the clerk. Then I 5 what's happened: flooded with 6 , the company is too busy. I've heard this happens when the weather gets 7 . I shout into the 8 that I have a plane to catchI must be in Seoul 9 and I'll meet the 10 a few hundred meters away on a bridge over the Kamo River.
Standing in the heavy 11 , I look up and down. No 12 From the other direction a white car comes up, then stops. A young man opens the door, signing to me to 13 . Shaking with cold and 14 , I climb inside.
In the most 15 Japanese, the man explains to me that he is the person with whom I have spoken 16 this morning. He apologizes again and again, but does not explain why a taxi could 17 except to say they are“very, very busy”this morning.
A few hours later, seated into my seat as the storm-delayed 727 18 , I open the 19 . My eyes wander to the headline (标题) of a short article:“Taxi Strike Begins this Morning in 20 .”
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The Village of Langshort is halfway along the old coach road from London to the South Coast. Young Henry Buckle was there when a car passed through the village for the first time, in the early 1900s. Later, as the owner of what had been his father's general store, he remembers selling ice-creams and soft drinks to families that passed through the village in cars and coaches on their way to the seaside.
But the traffic did not only bring trade to the village, it also brought noise and danger. As the years passed, the peace of what had been a quiet country village was broken by roaring engines; Farmer Dodd's gates were left open by day-trippers enjoying a picnic in his field; and trees that had been familiar friends were cut down so that the road through the village could be made wider and safer.
Safer, that is, for the cars and heavy lorries that thundered past within a few metres of Henry Buckle's general store. But it was not safer for Henry's son Gerald, and the other children of the village; and it was not safer for the old cottages that were shaken from their chimneys to their floors by every lorry that passed. Nor was it safer for Henry himself; as the old man moved, more slowly now, from his store to the pub and to the butcher's shop of his friend George Carter, just across the street.
The street had been where the life of the village was lived, where games were played, work was done and long conversations were held. Now it cut the village in two, and brought not life but death. Henry was knocked down and killed one night by a passing car. A great character, part of old Langshort, had died.
But Henry had not been buried long before his son Gerald, George Carter and others, had dressed as gasmen, and dug up the road, causing the traffic to follow another road right round the village, instead of through it.
Right up Your Street is the story of men who, when they are pushed too far, act quickly to defend a way of life that most of us have let go for good.
“Village life is described with a loving, and truthful pen” -- Morning Mail
“A book that puts the car on trial” -- Evening Post
(1) As a result of the increasing amount of traffic ________
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A．the peace was broken, gates were left open and trees were cut down
B．trade grew, there was more life in the village and local people enjoyed themselves more
C．familiar friends died or left the village for somewhere quieter
D．the road became wider and safer for the village people
(2) The road was made wider so that ________.
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A．heavy lorries could thunder past within a few metres of Henry's store
B．children could play in the street more safely than they had done before
C．it would be safer for cars and heavy lorries to pass through the village
D．the traffic would not shake the old cottages beside the road
(3) Henry took longer to cross the road now, because ________.
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A．the road was wider and safer, but noisier
B．he had to cross the road by means of a foot-bridge
C．he had to go to the pub before visiting his friend
D．he was becoming quite an old man
(4) “The street had been where the life of the village was lived” means ________.
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A．everyone who lived in the village lived on one or other side of the street
B．most of what happened in the village happened in the street
C．everyone worked in shops at the sides of the street
D．it was the cars and lorries that made the village a lively place
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