The crowd cheered and cheered. The man with the horn（号）waved and smiled his great smile. “More! More!” cried the crowd. And Louis Armstrong took his horn and began to play again.

 Here he was in England. Now a famous man, he was rich. He knew many important people. Wherever he went, people knew his name. They wanted to hear his music. As he played the sad, slow songs, Louis thought of his home in New Orleans. He lived there as a boy. It was a busy, exciting city. But Louis’s family was very poor. He went to work to help his mother. He also went to school. One of Louis’s teachers asked him to join the school band. “This horn is yours until you leave our school,” his teacher said. Louis’s music was jazz and he loved it. He remembered all the music he heard. He didn’t learn to read music until he was a man.

 When he left school, he played on many bands. He loved his work and people loved him. They knew that he had a wonderful talent. Louis played in little towns and in big cities. Armstrong’s horn had as many sounds as ten horns—sometimes slow and sometimes sweet; sometimes fast and hot, high and low. His music was always strong and exciting. “He does make wonderful music,” said the man who listened happily. “Yes,” said another man, “he makes that horn speak. ”

 The music ended and the crowd cheered. Louis Armstrong spoke with tears in his eyes, “I think, my friends, you can listen to as much jazz as I can play. I thought jazz was my music; but now I understand it is ours. It is beautiful that music brings us together. ”

1.Louis went to work when he was _______.

A. a schoolboy     B. a musician     C. famous     D. a man

2.Louis was very smart but he didn’t learn to read music until ______.

 A. he left school.                   B. he was in the the school band.

 C. he became a grown-up.           D. he became famous.

3. He was famous for ______.

 A. his horn                          B. his sad songs

 C. his wonderful jazz music            D. his love for music

4.Which of the following is the best title for this story ?.

 A. Musician                         B. A beautiful horn.

 C. The man with the horn.             D. Sweet smiles.

Do you know the man, with his hand _______his eyes ?

B
One of the most difficult questions to answer is how much a job is worth. We naturally expect that a doctor’s salary will be higher than a bus conductor’s wage. But the question becomes much more difficult to answer when we compare, say, a miner with an engineer, or an unskilled man working on an oil-rig(钻油机) in the North Sea with a teacher in a secondary school. What the doctor, the engineer and teacher have is many years of training in order to obtain the necessary qualifications for their professions. We feel instinctively that these skills and these years, when they were studying instead of earning money, should be rewarded. At the same time we recognize that the work of the miner and the oil-rig laborer is both hard and dangerous, and that they must be highly paid for the risks they take.
Another factor we must take into consideration is how socially useful a man’s work is, regardless of the talents he may bring to it. Most people would agree that looking after the sick or teaching children is more important than, say, selling secondhand cars or improving the taste of toothpaste by adding a red stripe to it. Yet it is almost certain that the used car salesman earns more than the nurse, and that research chemist earns more than the school teacher.
Indeed, this whole question of just rewards can be turned on its head. You can argue that a man who does a job which brings him personal satisfaction is already receiving part of his reward in the form of a so-called “psychic(精神的) wage”, and that it is the man with the boring, repetitive job who needs more money to make up for the soul-destroying monotony(单调) of his work. It is significant that that those jobs which are traditionally regarded as “vocations” --- nursing, teaching and the Church, for example --- continue to be poorly paid, while others, such as those in the world of sport or entertainment, carry financial rewards out of all proportion to their social worth.
Although the amount of money that people earn is in reality largely determined by market forces, this should not prevent us from seeking some way to decide what is the right pay for the job. A starting point for such an investigation would be to try to decide the ratio which ought to exist between the highest and the lowest paid. The picture is made more complicate by two factors: firstly by the “social wage”, i.e, the welfare benefits which every citizen receives; and secondly, by the taxation system, which is often used as an instrument of social justice by taxing high incomes at a very high rate indeed. Allowing for these two things, most countries now regard a ratio of 7:1 as socially acceptable. If it is less, the highly-qualified people carrying heavy responsibilities become disillusioned, and might even end up by emigration(移民) (the so-called “brain-drain” is an evidence that this can happen). If it is more, the gap between rich and poor will be so great that it will lead social tensions and ultimately to violence.
74. The professional man, such as the doctor, should be well paid because ______.
A. he has spent several years learning how to do his job
B. his work involves much great intelligence than, say, a bus conductor’s
C. he has to work much harder than most other people
D. he knows more than other people about his subject
75. The “brain-drain” is an evidence that ______.
A. well-educated people are prepared to emigrate whenever they can get a better paid job
B. people with jobs or responsibility expect to be highly paid
C. high taxation is a useful and effective instrument of social justice
D. the poor are generally more patriotic(爱国的) than the rich
76. As far as rewarding people for their work is concerned, the writer, believes that ______.
A. we should pay for socially-useful work, regardless of the person’s talent
B. we should pay people according to their talents
C. market forces will determine how much a person is paid
D. qualified people should be the highest paid
77. The argument of the “psychic wage” is used to explain why ______.
A. people who do socially important work are not always well paid
B. people who do monotonous jobs are highly paid
C. you should not try to compare the pay of different professions
D. some professional people are paid more than others

An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.
James Harrison has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father's blood.
Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special that his life was insured for one million Australian dollars.
He was also nicknamed the “man with the golden arm” or the “man in two million”. He said: “I've never thought about stopping. Never.” He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood. “I was in hospital for three months,” he said. “The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.”
Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative.
His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. “They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,” he said. “I wasn't scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.”
Mr. Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.
It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. Mr. Harrison is still donating every few weeks now.
【小题1】How old is James Harrison？

第四节完形填空（共20题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、和D四个选中选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
On a cold winter morning, my mother and I were walking home from a pizza store. We were dressed warmly and equipped with the video we had been  26  to watch. I was feeling a little  27  , as I was carrying our shopping bags of snacks and the video.
They were so heavy that I decided to  28  some things. So I started to walk towards the garbage can when I noticed a poor man  29  his bike out of the restaurant in front of us. He held a paper bag with his dirty hand. He  30  over to another nearby garbage can and started  31  it.
I suddenly felt very  32 . I knew this man would take all he could get,  33  I walked up to him and 34  the drink and some snacks over to him. The man, with lines on his face and wrinkles on his forehead, looked up in  35  and took what I gave him.
A huge smile 36  across his face and this 37  me to feel indescribable satisfaction. I felt like I couldn’t be  38  with myself, but then he said: “Wow, first someone gives me this sandwich, then this drink, and now some  39  food; this is my daughter’s  40  day!”
He thanked me happily and started off  41  his bike. I even heard him whistling a song as he rode away.
I now 42  what is meant by the saying “giving is getting”. Everyone in the world needs help, everyone can  43  help and everyone will be helped by showing  44 .
The image of that man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind  45  I have the chance to do something nice.
26．A．drinking      B．eating          C．dying          D．living
27．A．excited                 B．puzzled        C．tired                   D．satisfied
28．A．pick out          B．eat up            C．put down      D．throw away
29．A．running                B．walking           C．dragging      D．pulling
30．A．headed          B．rode               C．ran               D．fled
31．A．breaking into  B．looking through C．staring at    D．searching for
32．A．cold             B．afraid             C．guilty           D．content
33．A．but                    B．because            C．so                D．if
34．A．turned           B．thought           C．took              D．handed
35．A．surprise        B．detail               C．case                    D．return
36．A．disappeared    B．paused             C．existed             D．spread
37．A．made             B．forced             C．caused           D．gave
38．A．sadder             B．angrier            C．happier            D．crazier
39．A．cheap           B．tasty                C．clean               D．useful
40．A．lucky             B．busy                C．interesting      D．quiet
41．A．by                      B．on                   C．in                  D．with
42．A．remember        B．understand      C．appreciate      D．recognize
43．A．refuse           B．receive            C．offer              D．find
44．A．kindness          B．eagerness         C．willingness       D．braveness
45．A．every time     B．last time              C．atother times         D．next time