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My heart sank when the man at the immigration counter gestured to the back room. I was born and raised in America, and this was Miami, where I live, but they weren’t quite ready to let me in yet.
“Please wait in here, Ms. Abujaber,” the immigration officer said. My husband, with his very American last name, accompanied me. He was getting used to this. The same thing had happened recently in Canada when I’d flown to Montreal to speak at a book event. That time they held me for 45 minutes. Today we were returning from a literary festival in Jamaica, and I was shocked that I was being sent “in back” once again.
The officer behind the counter called me up and said, “Miss, your name looks like the name of someone who’s on our wanted list. We’re going to have to check you out with Washington.”
“How long will it take?”
“Hard to say…a few minutes,” he said, “We’ll call you when we’re ready for you.” After an hour, Washington still hadn’t decided anything about me.
“Isn’t this computerized?” I asked at the counter, “Can’t you just look me up?”
“Just a few more minutes,” they assured me.
After an hour and a half, I pulled my cell phone out to call the friends I was supposed to meet that evening. An officer rushed over. “No phones!” he said, “For all we know you could be calling a terrorist cell and giving them information.”
“I’m just a university professor,” I said. My voice came out in a squeak.
“Of course you are. And we take people like you out of here in leg irons every day.”
I put my phone away.
My husband and I were getting hungry and tired. Whole families had been brought into the waiting room, and the place was packed with excitable children, exhausted parents, and even a flight attendant.
I wanted to scream, to jump on a chair and shout: “I’m an American citizen; a novelist; I probably teach English literature to your children.”
After two hours in detention (扣押), I was approached by one of the officers. “You’re free to go,” he said. No explanation or apologies. For a moment, neither of us moved. We were still in shock. Then we leaped to our feet.
“Oh, one more thing,” he handed me a tattered photocopy with an address on it, “If you aren’t happy with your treatment, you can write to this agency.”
“Will they respond?” I asked.
“I don’t know—I don’t know of anyone who’s ever written to them before.” Then he added,” By the way, this will probably keep happening each time you travel internationally.”
“What can I do to keep it from happening again?”
He smiled the empty smile we’d seen all day, “Absolutely nothing.”
After telling several friends about our ordeal, probably the most frequent advice I’ve heard in response is to change my name. Twenty years ago, my own graduate school writing professor advised me to write under a pen name so that publishers wouldn’t stick me in what he called “the ethnic ghetto”—a separate, secondary shelf in the bookstore. But a name is an integral part of anyone’s personal and professional identity—just like the town you’re born in and the place where you’re raised.
Like my father, I’ll keep the name, but my airport experience has given me a whole new perspective on what diversity and tolerance are supposed to mean. I had no idea that being an American would ever be this hard.
1.The author was held at the airport because ______.
A. she and her husband returned from Jamaica
B. her name was similar to a terrorist’s
C. she had been held in Montreal
D. she had spoken at a book event
2.She was not allowed to call her friends because ______.
A. her identity hadn’t been confirmed yet
B. she had been held for only one hour and a half
C. there were other families in the waiting room
D. she couldn’t use her own cell phone
3.We learn from the passage that the author would ______ to prevent similar experience from happening again.
A. write to the agency?????????? B. change her name??
C. avoid traveling abroad??????? D. do nothing
4.Her experiences indicate that there still exists ______ in the US.
A. hatred???????????????????? B. discrimination?????
C. tolerance?????????????????? D. diversity
5.The author sounds ______ in the last paragraph.
A. impatient?? B. bitter???????? C. worried??????????? D. ironic (具有讽刺意味的)
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Some people cannot learn in ordinary schools. Physical or 1 handicap(残疾) prevents a child from learning. Today new 2 are being used in special schools to help the disabled learn
A school is being 3 in New Jersey, U.S.A. It is called Bancroft. Here the disabled will be trained to 4 themselves and to get along in the outside world.
Bancroft is not surrounded by 5 of any kind. Its director insists that it be 6 so that students may gradually develop normal relations with the rest of the world. Bancroft students will 7 in apartment, cooking their own meals, and learning to perform other 8 . As they become 9 , they will buy their own furniture, playing for it out of their own earnings. They will pay for their food, too. They will learn to expect 10 bills for the calls they make every month.
As a step toward the goal of becoming 11 , each disabled person will decide what kind of work he wants to be 12 to do. While some of the training will be carried on within Bancroft itself, most of the training will be carried on within Bancroft itself; most of the students will receive 13 training in nearby towns. They will be trained by town people.
After the training has been 14 completed, the student will work as an assistant and will begin to earn money. After that he will leave Bancroft, 15 the school will continue to give him help if he 16 it.
How long will it take a student to 17 his training under this new system? The director says. “For some a year will be 18 For others it might take ten years.” For all, however, this method offers new 19 . Many will learn to be 20 and independent, supporting themselves in the world.
1．A. spirit B. mental
C. thought D. body
2．A. plans B. decisions
C. tools D. methods
3．A. turned up B. set up
C. searched for D. longed for
4．A. enjoy B. teach
C. help D. support
5．A. trainers B. students
C. tress D. walls
6．A. free B. open
C. quiet D. different
7．A. live B. study
C. plays D. acts
8．A. operations B. tasks
C. plays D. acts
9．A. strong B. health
C. able D. happy
10．A. telephone B. education
C. housing D. food
11．A. brave B. clever
C. learned D. independent
12．A. asked B. sent
C. trained D. made
13．A. life B. job
C. body D. mind
14．A. successfully B. gradually
C. quickly D. hardly
15．A. and B. but C. so D. or
16．A. needs B. asks C. gets D. offers
17．A. receive B. get C. complete D. stop
18．A. short B. enough C. good D. long
19．A. ideas B. abilities C. time D. work
20．A. helpful B. careful C. useful D. cheerful
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Mrs Power had a 1 in a factory. She swept the floor. She was a very strong old 2 . She lived on the top 3 of a tall building.
One day 4 work she fell over and 5 her leg. The doctor was 6 . He put her leg in plaster (石膏) .
“How long do I 7 to carry this 8 around with me. Doctor?”asked Mrs Power.
“ 9 two months” replied the doctor. “ 10 I will come and take the plaster 11 . But 12 then you can not climb up and down stairs 13 do hard work.”
14 the end of two months the doctor came again “Can I climb up and down stairs now, Doctor?”asked Mrs Power.
“I think 15 .”said the doctor.
“Well, I'm very glad to 16 that.” said Mrs. Power.“I'm beginning to feel rather 17 . You said I couldn't climb up and down stairs. The only 18 way into my room was 19 the drainpipe (排水管). And that was 20 work, you know.”
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The most frightening words in the English language are,“Our computer is down.”Yon hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport wailing for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said,“I' m Sony. I can' t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”
“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”
“I can' t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”
I looked down the counter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, What do yon do.
“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”
So when it goes down, you go down with it.
“That's all right, air.”
“How long will the computer be down?”I wanted to know.
“I have no idea. Sometimes it' s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There is no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it' s clown it won't answer us.”
After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said,“Let' s forget the computer. What about your planes They're still flying, aren't they?”
“I couldn't tell without asking the computer.”
“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he' s firing to Washington.”I suggested.
“I wouldn't know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn't take you if you didn't have a ticket.”
“Is there any other airline firing to Washington within the next few hours?”
“I wouldn't know,”she said, pointing at the dark screen.“Only'IT'knows.'IT'cant tell me.”
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The words soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
(1)The best headline for the article is ________.
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A．Asking Computer of the Airport
B．The Computer of the Airport
C．The Most Frightening Words
D．When the Computer Is Down
(2)What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?
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A．She could answer the passenger' s questions.
B．She could do nothing.
C．She could sell a ticket.
D．She could write out a ticket.
(3)Why do you think they had no backup computer? ________.
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A．Because it was easy down.
B．Because it was not advanced enough.
C．Because it was not as big as the main computer.
D．Because it was very expensive.
(4)The last paragraph suggests that ________.
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A．a modem computer won't he down
B．computers can take the place of humans
C．sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
D．there will be great changes in computers
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How long can you expect to live? That is to say. 1 is the average life expectancy (寿命) for us?
The average life expectancy 2 from country to country, but for many countries nowadays, the average life expectancy is over 70 years. That 3 that the average 4 will live to be at least 70 years old．
Actually, in the United States in 1980, the average life expectancy was 73.8 5 . This age is a little 6 than the average life expectancy in 1970 -- 70.8 years.
In fact, if you look at the average life expectancy 7 for this century, you'll see that the 8 gets higher every year. For instance, in 1900 it was 47.3, in 1910 it was 50, in 1920 it was 54.1, 1930 was 59.7, 1940 was 62.9, 1950 was68.2, and in 1960 the average lifetime was 69.7 years.
9 does the average life expectancy 10 getting higher and higher? The main 11 are related to 12 care. First, health care, 13 general health care for 14 children has 15 steadily. Second, a large number of 16 have been 17 in the past 40 or 50 years. These 18 drug can prevent and cure many 19 that used to be fatal (致命的) in the 20 .
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