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  His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer.One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog(泥塘).He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.There, trapped to his waist in black mud, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.Farmer Fleming saved the boy from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

  The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's surroundings.An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.“I want to repay you,” said the nobleman.“You saved my son's life.”

  “No, I can't accept payment for what I did,” the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel(陋屋).“Is that your son?” the nobleman asked.“Yes,” the farmer replied proudly.

  “I'll make you a deal.Let me take him and give him a good education.If the boy is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of.”

  And that he did.In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St.Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin.

  Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia(肺炎).What saved him? Penicillin.

  The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

  Someone once said, “What goes around, comes around.”

(1)

Why did the nobleman come to the poor farmer's house?

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A.

Because they were close relatives.

B.

Because they were good friends.

C.

Because the nobleman knew the farmer had a promising son.

D.

Because he wanted to thank the great farmer for saving his child.

(2)

What the nobleman said in Paragraph 4 meant that ________.

[  ]

A.

he wanted to bargain with the father

B.

he wanted to adopt the son of the farmer

C.

he wanted to repay the great farmer who saved his child

D.

he wanted to test if the boy was like his great father

(3)

What can we learn from the passage?

[  ]

A.

It was farmer Fleming's great deed that helped his son achieve success later.

B.

Sir Alexander Fleming achieved success all by his own hard work.

C.

Sir Alexander Fleming achieved success all by the nobleman's help.

D.

A good relationship between a farmer and a nobleman is of great use.

(4)

What can be the best title of this passage?

[  ]

A.

You will have to face what you’ve done.

B.

What goes around comes around.

C.

No pains, no gains.

D.

Setting up a good relationship with the rich man.

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(A)

 A class of small boys in a German school had been making a lot of noise, so their teacher decided  1  He kept them in the classroom after the other boys  2 and told them to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 together

 The boys sadly  3 their exercise books and began to write the numbers downall of them  4 one boy, who had been in that school only for a few days This boy looked out of the window for a few moments, wrote a number in his exercise book and  5 his hand

 “May I go home when I've found the answer, sir? he asked

 “Yes, you may, answered the teacher

 “Well, I've found it, sir said the boy

 The teacher and the other boys were all very surprised

 “  6 , said the teacher

 The boy brought it It was quite correct, so the teacher had to let the boy go home The next morning, the  7 teacher asked the new boy how he had found the answer so quickly

   “Well, sir, he said, I thought that there  8 the answer, and I found one, you see, If you add 100 to 1, you get 101, and if you add 99 to 2, you also get 101, 98 to 3 is 101 too, and if you go on until you reach 51 and 50, you have 101 fifty times, which is 5050

 After this, the teacher gave the boy  9 the other boys in the class His name was Karl Friedrich Gauss, and when he  10 , he became a famous professor of mathematics

                                                                                                                                                     

1A to frighten all of them

  

B to beat them one by    one

  

  C to punish them

  

D to praise all of them

  

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2A had gone 

  

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3A took down

  

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4A except for

  

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D besides

  

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5A put out

  

B put down

  

  C put up 

  

D put aside

  

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6A Carry directly it to me

  

B Bring it here

  

  C Take it back to me

  

D Fetch it for me

  

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7A surprised 

  

B surprising

  

  C satisfying

  

D pleased

  

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8A should be a rapid method of finding

  

  B might be a quick way of finding

  

  C couldn't be a fast way to find

  

  D must be a quickly method to find

  

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9A the same work as 

  

B as different a work as

  

  C different work from 

  

D no difference work from

  

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10A grew bigger

  

B grown up

  

  C grew taller

  

D grew up

  

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(B)

    On October 21st of 1833, Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden His father was an engineer, and at that time he was  11 explosives (炸药) When Alfred was  12 to go to university, his father sent him to the United States to study mechanical engineering (机械工程学)

   When he left university, he started a factory with his brother to make a new and very powerful explosive At first the factory  13 , but one day there was a terrible explosion (爆炸) in the factory It killed several workmen and Alfred's brother Alfred himself was not there that day

   Alfred  14 after his brother's death, but he did not stop working; he moved his factory onto a boat, and took it a few miles out to sea If  15 , he said to himself, I will be killed, but  16 will be hurt He was not killed  17 , but made a new and much safer explosive He called it dynamite (甘油炸药)

 This was the time, in  18 of the nineteenth century, when many modern roads and the first railways and tunnels  19 in Europe Everybody wanted to use Nobel's new dynamite He soon became very rich

   But Nobel's dynamite was not always used for making roads; it was also  20 making war It's Nobel's fault (错误), many people said, It's his dynamite they're using to make war It was true; it was his dynamite; but was it his fault?

 One day, in 1891, Nobel opened a newspaper and read the story of his own death! It was  21 , of course, and at first he laughed; but he did not laugh then he saw the things the newspaper  22 him, A very bad man, they said, terriblewanted to destroy the world with his dynamite

 Poor Alfred Nobel! He decided to leave Paris, and went to live in Italy There he  23 in a big house, working and studying every hour of the day

   In 1896, Alfred Nobel died But that was  24 his name When he died, he left a lot of  25 five Nobel Prizes These are given every year for important work in five different fields, One prize is for chemistry, another for physics and another for medicine; there is also one for literature (文学); and the fifth one, the most important one for Alfred Nobel, is the Nobel Peace Prize

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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12A old enough

  

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13A went from bad to worse

  

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  C went very well

  

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14A felt very afraid of it

  

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  C was quite happy

  

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15A anything goes right there

  

  B nothing seems to happen there

  

  C something goes wrong here

  

  D everything comes badly here

  

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16A other people

  

B everybody

  

  C somebody else 

  

D nobody else

  

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17A after all 

  

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18A a second half 

  

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19A were building 

  

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  C. meaning nothing for

  

D. really the end of

  

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25.A. troubles to

  

B. debts to

  

  C. money for

  

D. sorry for

  

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  Long ago there was a little boy who wanted to be a soldier more than anything else in the world. His brothers and sisters played other games while he was playing soldier.

  Later he went to a military(军事的)school and studied very hard. When he was less than eighteen, he became a soldier. But the small man wanted power(权力). He wanted to tell people and nations and the whole world what to do. He kept on working and studying until he became a general in the French Army.

  His name was Napoleon Bonaparte, and he finally became emperor of France.

  He was famous and as an emperor, and for a while he won all the wars and became a national hero. But he was not a kind man. He could be charming(迷人的)when he wanted to be. But he was also rude and very cruel, and many people died so that he could win his wars.

  Napoleon did one thing that was very important to the United States. He sold a huge piece of land in North America to the United States and got a lot of money and he could go on fighting a war with England, And Napoleon rose to great power.

  Then things began to go badly for him, in June of 1815 he lost the Battle of Waterloo(滑铁卢)to England and his days of power and greatness were suddenly over. And six years later he died on a far rocky island.

(1) The little boy wanted to be a soldier, so ________.

[  ]

A.he didn't play with his brothers

B.he read a lot of military books

C.he often played soldier alone

D.he joined the army when he was young

(2) Napoleon studied hard in the military school, because ________.

[  ]

A.he wanted to be a general

B.he wanted to get much money

C.he hoped to win the Battle of Waterloo

D.he hoped to dominate(主宰)the world.

(3) The French regard Napoleon as a national hero because ________.

[  ]

A.he won all the wars for a while

B.he became an emperor of France

C.he became a famous general

D.he was kind to the people

(4) Napoleon sold the land to the United States in order to ________.

[  ]

A.fight the war with England

B.make his family richer

C.give some money to his people

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  His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer.One day, while trying to eke(补充)out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog(沼泽地).He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.There, mired(陷于泥坑)to his waist in black muck(淤泥)was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

  The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse(稀疏的)surroundings.An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

  "I want to repay you, " said the nobleman."You saved my son's life."

  "No, I can't accept payment for what I did, " the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel(茅舍).

  "Is that your son? " the nobleman asked."Yes, " the farmer replied proudly.

  "I'll make you a deal.Let me take him and give him a good education.If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of."

  And that he did.In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St.Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

  Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia(肺炎).

  What saved him? Penicillin.

  The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.

  His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

(1)

Whose life did the Scottish farmer save?

[  ]

A.

Lord Randolph Churchill's.

B.

Sir Winston Churchill's.

C.

Sir Alexander Fleming's

D.

Penicillin's.

(2)

Why did the nobleman take the farmer's son and give him a good education?

[  ]

A.

The nobleman wanted to bring him up to be a man like his father.

B.

The farmer was too poor to afford his son's education.

C.

The nobleman wanted to pay back the farmer for saving his son.

D.

The farmer wanted to make his son become a proud man.

(3)

What kind of person could the farmer Fleming probably be?

[  ]

A.

Kind, brave and generous.

B.

Kind, shy and merciful.

C.

Kind, innocent and passive.

D.

Kind, brave and honest.

(4)

Which of the following might be NOT TRUE according to the text?

[  ]

A.

The farmer saved the nobleman's son twice.

B.

The nobleman's son later became a great person.

C.

The farmer's son later became a great person.

D.

Penicillin is a powerful kind of medicine.

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