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For three years, no matter__3___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a. m. On.__4___ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime.__5___ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. .__6___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I__7___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how__8___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I__9___ her.
“Did she have an accident? Something__10___?” I thought to myself about her__11___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had__12___ her. I began to realize that part of our__13___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar__14___； the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who__15___ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are__16___ markers in our lives. They add weight to our__17___ of place and belonging.
Think about it__18___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by__19___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though__20___, person?
1. A. Make B. Take C. Give D. Have
2. A. happened B. wanted C. used D. tried
3. A. what B. how C. which D. when
4. A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy
5. A. took B. brought C. carried D. turned
6. A. Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially
7. A. believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered
8. A. long B. often C. soon D. much
9. A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired
10. A. better B. worse C. more D. less
11. A. disappearance B. appearance C. misfortune D. fortune
12. A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt
13. A. happy B. enjoyable C. frequent D. daily
14. A. friends B. strangers C. tourists D. guests
15. A. regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably
16. A. common B. pleasant C. important D. faithful
17. A. choice & nbsp; B. knowledge C. decision D. sense
18. A. Because B. If C. Although D. However
19. A. keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning
20. A. unnamed B. unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal
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We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears.__1___, for example, the neatly dressed woman I__2___ to see—or look at—on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter__3___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a. m. On.__4___ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime.__5___ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. .__6___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I__7___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how__8___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I__9___ her.
“Did she have an accident? Something__10___?” I thought to myself about her__11___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had__12___ her. I began to realize that part of our__13___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar__14___； the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who__15___ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are__16___ markers in our lives. They add weight to our__17___ of place and belonging.
Think about it__18___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by__19___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though__20___, person?
1. A. Make B. Take C. Give D. Have
2. A. happened B. wanted C. used D. tried
3. A. what B. how C. which D. when
4. A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy
5. A. took B. brought C. carried D. turned
6. A. Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially
7. A. believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered
8. A. long B. often C. soon D. much
9. A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired
10. A. better B. worse C. more D. less
11. A. disappearance B. appearance C. misfortune D. fortune
12. A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt
13. A. happy B. enjoyable C. frequent D. daily
14. A. friends B. strangers C. tourists D. guests
15. A. regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably
16. A. common B. pleasant C. important D. faithful
17. A. choice B. knowledge C. decision D. sense
18. A. Because B. If C. Although D. However
19. A. keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning
20. A. unnamed B. unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal
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Pha?thon stood impatiently at the heavy golden doors. He ordered the guards, Month and Year, to let him approach his father’s throne. As the doors opened slowly, the sun’s rays almost blinded him. Pha?thon protected his eyes and felt his way toward Apollo’s throne. “Come here, my son. Follow my voice,” Apollo’s voice echoed. “What is so urgent that you have my guards hurrying to do your bidding?”
“Father, I have a problem. All of my friends have been teasing me. They don’t believe that you’re my father or that you make the sun rise and set,” complained Pha?thon.
Apollo replied, “Oh? That problem again? Well, just to prove it to your friends once and for all, I will satisfy any wish you desire.”
“Really? Then I have only one wish,” answered Pha?thon. “I’d like to drive your chariot and make the sun rise tomorrow morning!”
Apollo was horrified. “No, not that! No one but me can drive the chariot. The horses are too powerful!”
“You said I could have anything,” murmured Pha?thon.
Bound by his promise, Apollo had to agree. His heart was sick with worry as he ordered Dawn to prepare the horses, Hour and Day, to the Golden Chariot. Pha?thon could hardly wait to jump in the driver’s seat and take the reins(缰绳). He hoped all his friends were watching the sky and waiting for him through the stars.
“Wait, my son! There are things you need to know!” cried Apollo.
“Oh, Father! You worry too much. I’ve often seen you drive. I know what to do,” Pha?thon answered.
Apollo hurried to give directions. “You have never driven my chariot before. You must make the horses stay on the path. If you are too low, you will scorch the earth and large land on it could be thrown into a world of fire.”
“I know, Father. Now watch me take off!” shouted Pha?thon.
Dawn stepped back and released the horses go. The horses were filled with excitement. The sky begged for Dawn’s light, so she ran toward the horizon to make the darkness fade. As Pha?thon was about to get on, Apollo took him by the arm and said, “Please listen to me! If you go too high, you will warm the cold depths of the heavens, and the Bear or Snake or the Scorpion (天蝎星座) will come alive!”
Pha?thon just laughed. “My friends are waiting. I’ve got to go!” he shouted.
With that, the chariot was off. It was a wild ride. Hour and Day were difficult to control. Pha?thon did not have his father’s strong arms or years of experience. The horses wove from side to side and jumped up and down through the heavens, hitting everything in their way. The sun bounced along behind the chariot like a basketball. It scratched the stars and slipped along mountaintops, leaving burnt remains behind. Pha?thon’s friends ran for cover as they watched. Just as his father had warned him, the figures in the sky began to move. Suddenly the Scorpion appeared suddenly before him, but Pha?thon dashed by in time. The Snake struck out and bit a wheel off the chariot.
Apollo, seeing the destruction, rushed up toward the heavens, but he was too late! The Bear had waken up from his icy hibernation and seized Pha?thon before his father could reach him. Apollo took hold of the reins and finally regained control of Hour and Day, but it was years before the earth’s mountaintops were white with snow again. The scorched areas became deserts where very little would grow. Pha?thon became a part of the stars alongside the Bear, where his father could regretfully keep an eye on him.
67. Which word can be used to replace the underlined word “scorch”?
A. Scratch B. Burn C. Hit D. Destroy
68. What caused Apollo to allow Pha?thon to drive the chariot?
A. Apollo wanted to protect Pha?thon from teasing.
B. Pha?thon dared to approach Apollo’s throne.
C. Apollo was bound by his promise to Pha?thon.
D. Apollo asked Pha?thon to do it as a favour.
69. It can be concluded that this passage is mainly about the conflict between ______.
A. Goodness and Evil B. Man and Nature
C. Strength and Weakness D. Wisdom and Inexperience
70. From what point of view is the passage told?
A. First person, Apollo B. Third person, limited
C. Third person, unnamed D. Third person, Dawn
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easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years
later, and ever since have been of great value to me.
Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.
"Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?"
"I try to."
"Well, don't," he exclaimed. "When you grow up, time won't come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life."
When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. I even took up piano--playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.
There is an important trick in this time--using formula: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste four chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.
I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a tremendous influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge（投入）in without delay.
56．The meaning of “stretch” in the underlined part is the same as that in sentence “ ”.
A．The forests in the north of the province stretch for hundreds of miles.
B．Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over twenty years.
C．My family wasn’t wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.
D．During his senior year his earnings far enough to buy an old car.
57．Which of the following statements is true?
A．The writer didn’t completely take the teacher’s words to heart at first.
B．Carl Walter has had a great influence on the writer's life since he became a student.
C．The writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.
D．Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.
58．We can infer that the writer .
A．has new books published each year however busy his teaching is
B．is always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavy
C．has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels
D．can find sufficient time for mental preparations beforehand, so he's devoted to work instantly
59．What is the best title of this passage?
A．Concentrate on Your Work B．A Little at a Time
C．How I Became a Writer D．Good Advice Is Most Valuable
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