The building will stand for America’s freedom and pride. The tower will be 1 776 feet tall, which is the same as the year America signed the Declaration of Independence. The tower’s twisted shape symbolizes(象征) the Statue of Liberty, and the narrow top represents the statue’s arm holding the Torch of Freedom.

“The Freedom Tower will be a proud new symbol of our country, and a monument to our two lost buildings, ”Governor George Pataki said. “The design had to be a modern, safe, and environmentally creative office tower showing that Lower Manhattan is still the financial(金融的) capital of the world. ”

But clearly the design is mainly Mr. Childs’ work. He is a famous architect. The plan of the building follows the Manhattan streets.

The World Trade Tower was lost on Sept. 11, 2001. That painful fact was strengthened today by news that the restaurant of Windows on the World may return. Mr. Childs imagined dinners looking up through overhead windows.

Freedom Tower will have 2. 6 million square feet of office space—more than the Empire State Building—with a total area of about 2. 8 million square feet. It would be built by the Tishman Construction Company, which constructed the twin towers.

Mr. Silverstein said today that Governor Pataki had asked that the first stone of the Freedom Tower be laid by the third anniversary (周年纪念) of the attack.

“We have to continue to think about it, ”the governor said. “The middle of September is possible. It obviously has nothing to do with the meeting, which will be long gone. ”

“This is not a political structure, ”Mr. Pataki said, “and it will not be a political event. ”

The next important event for the Freedom Tower is on Sept. 11, 2006, when the steel structure is completed.

Mr. Silverstein said that he would do his best to meet the deadline(最后期限). He said the tower ought to be completely finished in 2008 or 2009 to be followed yearly by the four other office buildings planned around the site.

1. The Freedom Tower __________.

A. will be built where the World Trade Center once stood

B. was designed on December 20, 2003

C. will be built as the financial capital of the world

D. was designed to be as tall as the World Trade Center

2. The Freedom Tower will be built 1 776 feet tall for the purpose__________.

A. to be the tallest building in the world

B. to stand for the proud feeling of Americans

C. to match the Statue of Liberty

D. to be the monument of the founding of USA

3. The author tells us in the 4th paragraph that__________.

A. architect Mr. Childs also designed the whole construction of the Manhattan streets　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

B. Mr. Childs worked out the design alone

C. the design of the Freedom Tower follows the construction style of Manhattan streets

D. the design of Manhattan streets is better than that of the Freedom Tower

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The Empire State Building was also built by the Tishman Construction Company.

B. The Freedom Tower will mainly be used as a restaurant with many windows looking at the whole New York.

C. Mr. Silverstein is someone who can represent the Tishman Construction Company.

D. The Freedom Tower’s foundation will be over by the 3rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack.

Freedom Tower—the new building at the World Trade Center site will be the tallest building in the world. The final design was made known to the public on December 20, 2003.

The building will stand for America’s freedom and pride. The tower will be 1 776 feet tall, which is the same as the year America signed the Declaration of Independence. The tower’s twisted shape symbolizes(象征) the Statue of Liberty, and the narrow top represents the statue’s arm holding the Torch of Freedom.

“The Freedom Tower will be a proud new symbol of our country, and a monument to our two lost buildings, ”Governor George Pataki said. “The design had to be a modern, safe, and environmentally creative office tower showing that Lower Manhattan is still the financial(金融的) capital of the world. ”

But clearly the design is mainly Mr. Childs’ work. He is a famous architect. The plan of the building follows the Manhattan streets.

The World Trade Tower was lost on Sept. 11, 2001. That painful fact was strengthened today by news that the restaurant of Windows on the World may return. Mr. Childs imagined dinners looking up through overhead windows.

Freedom Tower will have 2. 6 million square feet of office space—more than the Empire State Building—with a total area of about 2. 8 million square feet. It would be built by the Tishman Construction Company, which constructed the twin towers.

Mr. Silverstein said today that Governor Pataki had asked that the first stone of the Freedom Tower be laid by the third anniversary (周年纪念) of the attack.

“We have to continue to think about it, ”the governor said. “The middle of September is possible. It obviously has nothing to do with the meeting, which will be long gone. ”

“This is not a political structure, ”Mr. Pataki said, “and it will not be a political event. ”

The next important event for the Freedom Tower is on Sept. 11, 2006, when the steel structure is completed.

Mr. Silverstein said that he would do his best to meet the deadline(最后期限). He said the tower ought to be completely finished in 2008 or 2009 to be followed yearly by the four other office buildings planned around the site.

1. The Freedom Tower __________.

A. will be built where the World Trade Center once stood

B. was designed on December 20, 2003

C. will be built as the financial capital of the world

D. was designed to be as tall as the World Trade Center

2. The Freedom Tower will be built 1 776 feet tall for the purpose__________.

A. to be the tallest building in the world

B. to stand for the proud feeling of Americans

C. to match the Statue of Liberty

D. to be the monument of the founding of USA

3. The author tells us in the 4th paragraph that__________.

A. architect Mr. Childs also designed the whole construction of the Manhattan streets　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

B. Mr. Childs worked out the design alone

C. the design of the Freedom Tower follows the construction style of Manhattan streets

D. the design of Manhattan streets is better than that of the Freedom Tower

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The Empire State Building was also built by the Tishman Construction Company.

B. The Freedom Tower will mainly be used as a restaurant with many windows looking at the whole New York.

C. Mr. Silverstein is someone who can represent the Tishman Construction Company.

D. The Freedom Tower’s foundation will be over by the 3rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack.

(2009浙江宁波质检)??It’s getting dark, but Mr．Johnson is still at his office．

   ??No surprise．Who else can ______ he does?

A．do less work than                                    B．work as hardly as

C．work as hard as                                        D．be working hardly like

I cheated on a unit test in math class this morning during second period with Mr. Burke. Afterward, I was too sick to eat lunch just thinking about it.
I came straight home from school, went to my room, and lay on the floor trying to decide whether it would be better to run away from home now or after supper. Mostly I wished I was dead. It wasn't even an accident that I cheated.
Yesterday Mr. Burke announced there'd be a unit test and anyone who didn't pass would have to come to school on Saturday, most particularly me, since I didn't pass the last unit test. I did plan to study just to prove to him that I'm plenty smart—which I am mostly—except in math.
Anyway, I got my desk ready to study on . Just when I was ready to work, Nicho came into my room with our new rabbit and it jumped on my desk and knocked the flashcards all over the floor. What a mess! Nicho and I finally took the rabbit outside but then Philip came to my room and also Marty from next door and before long it was dinner.
After dinner my father said I could watch a special on television if I'd done all my homework. Of course I said I had. That was the beginning. I felt terrible telling my father a lie about the homework.
It was nine o'clock when I got up to my room and that was too late to study for the unit test so I lay in my bed with the light off and decided what I would do the next day when I was in Mr. Burke's math class not knowing the 8- and 9-times tables. So, you see, the cheating was planned after all.
The next day, I'd go into class as usual, acting like things were going just great. I'd sit down next to Stanley Plummer—he is so smart in math it makes you sick—and from time to time, I'd glance over at his paper to copy the answers.
Lying on the floor of my room, I begin to think that probably I've been bad all along. It just took this math test to clinch it. I'll probably never tell the truth again. I tell my mother I'm sick when she calls me to come down for dinner. She doesn't believe me, but puts me to bed anyhow. I lie there in the early winter darkness wondering what terrible thing I'll be doing next when my father comes in and sits down on my bed.
"What's the matter?" he asks. "I've got a stomachache," I say. Luckily, it's too dark to see his face. "Is that all?" "Yeah." "Mommy says you've been in your room since school." "I was sick there too," I say. "She thinks something happened today and you're upset." That's the thing that really drives me crazy about my mother. She knows things sitting inside my head the same as if I was turned inside out.
"Well," my father says. I can tell he doesn't believe me. "My stomach is feeling sort of upset." I hedge. "Okay," he says and he pats my leg and gets up.
Just as he shuts the door to my room I call out to him in a voice I don't even recognize as my own. "How come?" he calls back not surprised or anything. So I tell him I cheated on this math test. To tell the truth, I'm pretty much surprised at myself. I didn't plan to tell him anything.
He doesn't say anything at first and that just about kills me. I'd be fine if he'd spank me or something. And then he says I'll have to call Mr. Burke. It's not what I had in mind. "Now?" I ask surprised. "Now," he says. He turns on the light and pulls off my covers. "I'm not going to," I say.
But I do it. I call Mr. Burke, and I tell him exactly what happened, even that I decided to cheat the night before the test. He says I'll come on Saturday to take another test, which is okay with me, and I thank him a whole lot for being understanding and all.
"Today I thought I was turning into a criminal," I tell my father when he turns out my light. Sometimes my father kisses me good night and sometimes he doesn't. I never know. But tonight he does.
【小题1】After the author cheated on the math test, he felt ____________.

When I was fourteen, I earned money in the summer by cutting lawns（草坪）, and within a few weeks I had built up a body of customers. I got to know people by the flowers they planted that I had to remember not to cut down, by the things they lost in the grass or struck in the ground on purpose. I reached the point with most of them when I knew in advance what complaint was about to be spoken, which request was most important. And I learned something about the measure of my neighbors by their preferred method of payment: by the job, by the month—or not at all.
Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason why. On one day, he had no change for a fifty, on another he was flat out of checks, on another, he was simply out when I knocked on his door. Still, except for the money apart, he was a nice enough guy, always waving or tipping his hat when he’d seen me from a distance. I figured him for a thin retirement check, maybe a work-related injury that kept him from doing his own yard work. Sure, I kept track of the total, but I didn’t worry about the amount too much. Grass was grass, and the little that Mr. Ballou’s property comprised didn’t take long to trim (修剪).
Then, one late afternoon in mid-July, the hottest time of the year, I was walking by his house and he opened the door, mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool, shaded, and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light. 
“I owe you,” Mr Ballou said, “but…”
I thought I’d save him the trouble of thinking of a new excuse. “No problem. Don’t worry about it.”
“The bank made a mistake in my account,” he continued, ignoring my words. “It will be cleared up in a day or two. But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment.
He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked (堆放) everywhere. It was like a library, except with no order to the arrangement.
“Take your time,” Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read, borrow, keep, or find something you like. What do you read?”
“I don’t know.” And I didn’t. I generally read what was in front of me, what I could get from the paperback stack at the drugstore, what I found at the library, magazines, the back of cereal boxes, comics. The idea of consciously seeking out a special title was new to me, but, I realized, not without appeal--- so I started to look through the piles of books.
“You actually read all of these?”
“This isn’t much,” Mr. Ballou said. “This is nothing, just what I’ve kept, the ones worth looking at a second time.”
“Pick for me, then.”
He raised his eyebrows, cocked his head, and regarded me as though measuring me for a suit. After a moment, he nodded, searched through a stack, and handed me a dark red hardbound book, fairly thick.
“The Last of the Just,” I read. “By Andre Schwarz-Bart. What’s it about?”
“You tell me,” he said. “Next week.”
I started after supper, sitting outdoors on an uncomfortable kitchen chair. Within a few pages, the yard, the summer, disappeared, and I was plunged into the aching tragedy of the Holocaust, the extraordinary clash of good, represented by one decent man, and evil. Translated from French, the language was elegant, simple, impossible to resist. When the evening light finally failed I moved inside, read all through the night.
To this day, thirty years later, I vividly remember the experience. It was my first voluntary encounter with world literature, and I was amazed by the concentrated power a novel could contain. I lacked the vocabulary, however, to translate my feelings into words, so the next week. When Mr. Ballou asked, “Well?” I only replied, “It was good?”
“Keep it, then,” he said. “Shall I suggest another?”
I nodded, and was presented with the paperback edition of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa (a very important book on the study of the social and cultural development of peoples—anthropology (人类学) ).
To make two long stories short, Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had assumed it to be, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a hammock (吊床) (though I have since enjoyed many of those, too). A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the course of all that follows.
【小题1】Before his encounter with Mr. Ballou, the author used to read _____________.