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| I can’t ____ being kept waiting, for I have to go to the airport to see my friend off. A. consider B. suffer C. stand D. experience |
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Last Christmas was a very difficult time for me. My family and all of my close friends were back home in Florida, and I was all alone in a rather cold California. I was working too many hours and became very sick.
I was working a double shift at the Southwest Airlines ticket counter, it was about 9:00 PM on Christmas Eve, and I was feeling really miserable inside. There were a few of us working and very few customers waiting to be helped. When it was time for me to call the next person to the counter, I looked out to see the sweetest-looking old man standing with a cane. He walked very slowly over to the counter and in the faintest voice told me that he had to go to New Orleans. I tried to explain to him that there were no more flights that night and that he would have to go in the morning. He looked so confused and very worried. I tried to find out more information by asking if he had a reservation or if he remembered when he was supposed to travel, but he seemed to become more confused with each question. He just kept saying, “She said I have to go to New Orleans.”
After much time, I was able to at least find out that this old man had been dropped off at the curb on Christmas Eve by his sister-in-law and told to go to New Orleans, where he had family. She had given him some cash and told him just to go inside and buy a ticket. When I asked if he could come back tomorrow, he said that she was gone and that he had no place to stay. He then said he would wait at the airport until tomorrow. Naturally, I felt a little ashamed. Here I was feeling very sorry for myself about being alone on Christmas, when this angel named Clarence MacDonald was sent to me to remind me of what being alone really meant. It broke my heart.
Immediately, I told him we would get it all straightened out, and our Customer Service agent helped to book him a seat for the earliest flight the next morning. We gave him the senior citizen’s fare, which gave him some extra money for travelling. About this time he started to look very tired, and when I stepped around the counter to ask him if he was all right, I saw that his leg was wrapped in a bandage. He had been standing on it that whole time, holding a plastic bag full of clothes.
I called for a wheelchair. When the wheelchair came, we all stepped around to help him in, and I noticed a small amount of blood on his bandage. I asked how he hurt his leg, and he said that he had just had bypass surgery and an artery was taken from his leg. Can you imagine? This man had had heart surgery, and then shortly afterward, was dropped off at the curb to buy a ticket with no reservation to fly to New Orleans, alone!
I never really had a situation like this, and I wasn’t sure what I could do. I went back to ask my supervisors if we could find a place for him to stay. They both said yes, and they obtained a hotel voucher for Mr. MacDonald for one night and a meal ticket for dinner and breakfast. When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the porter a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the airport shuttle. I bent down to explain the hotel, food and itinerary (行程) again to Mr. MacDonald, and then patted him on the arm and told him everything would be just fine.
As he left he said, “Thank you,” bent his head and started to cry. I cried too. When I went back to thank my supervisor, she just smiled and said, “I love stories like that. He is your Christmas Man.”
【小题1】Last Christmas the writer had a miserable time because ______.
| A．there were more customers than usual waiting to be helped |
| B．it was freezing cold in California at Christmas time |
| C．she was working all alone at the ticket counter |
| D．she was far away from her family and friends |
| A．gentle-looking and weak | B．tired out and worried |
| C．confused and very sick | D．sad and anxious |
| A．see his friends there |
| B．spend the Christmas with his family |
| C．visit his sister-in-law |
| D．undergo heart surgery |
| A．she felt sorry that she couldn’t do the old man a favor |
| B．she realized that someone was even more miserable than she felt |
| C．it took her a long time to find out how helpless the old man was |
| D．the old man was like an angel in the writer’s eyes |
| A．the old man had broken his leg when he was dropped off at the curb |
| B．the old man could spend the whole night on it at the airport |
| C．the old man was carrying a whole lot of clothes |
| D．the old man had had surgery just before and was very weak by then |
| A．the old man had told the writer a love story on Christmas |
| B．the old man had caused a lot of trouble for the writer on Christmas |
| C．the old man was the best gift the writer could have received on Christmas |
| D．the old man was the only customer the writer had served on Christmas |
Last Christmas was a very difficult time for me. My family and all of my close friends were back home in Florida, and I was all alone in a rather cold California. I was working too many hours and became very sick.
I was working a double shift at the Southwest Airlines ticket counter, it was about 9:00 PM on Christmas Eve, and I was feeling really miserable inside. There were a few of us working and very few customers waiting to be helped. When it was time for me to call the next person to the counter, I looked out to see the sweetest-looking old man standing with a cane. He walked very slowly over to the counter and in the faintest voice told me that he had to go to New Orleans. I tried to explain to him that there were no more flights that night and that he would have to go in the morning. He looked so confused and very worried. I tried to find out more information by asking if he had a reservation or if he remembered when he was supposed to travel, but he seemed to become more confused with each question. He just kept saying, “She said I have to go to New Orleans.”
After much time, I was able to at least find out that this old man had been dropped off at the curb on Christmas Eve by his sister-in-law and told to go to New Orleans, where he had family. She had given him some cash and told him just to go inside and buy a ticket. When I asked if he could come back tomorrow, he said that she was gone and that he had no place to stay. He then said he would wait at the airport until tomorrow. Naturally, I felt a little ashamed. Here I was feeling very sorry for myself about being alone on Christmas, when this angel named Clarence MacDonald was sent to me to remind me of what being alone really meant. It broke my heart.
Immediately, I told him we would get it all straightened out, and our Customer Service agent helped to book him a seat for the earliest flight the next morning. We gave him the senior citizen’s fare, which gave him some extra money for travelling. About this time he started to look very tired, and when I stepped around the counter to ask him if he was all right, I saw that his leg was wrapped in a bandage. He had been standing on it that whole time, holding a plastic bag full of clothes.
I called for a wheelchair. When the wheelchair came, we all stepped around to help him in, and I noticed a small amount of blood on his bandage. I asked how he hurt his leg, and he said that he had just had bypass surgery and an artery was taken from his leg. Can you imagine? This man had had heart surgery, and then shortly afterward, was dropped off at the curb to buy a ticket with no reservation to fly to New Orleans, alone!
I never really had a situation like this, and I wasn’t sure what I could do. I went back to ask my supervisors if we could find a place for him to stay. They both said yes, and they obtained a hotel voucher for Mr. MacDonald for one night and a meal ticket for dinner and breakfast. When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the porter a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the airport shuttle. I bent down to explain the hotel, food and itinerary (行程) again to Mr. MacDonald, and then patted him on the arm and told him everything would be just fine.
As he left he said, “Thank you,” bent his head and started to cry. I cried too. When I went back to thank my supervisor, she just smiled and said, “I love stories like that. He is your Christmas Man.”
1.Last Christmas the writer had a miserable time because ______.
A．there were more customers than usual waiting to be helped
B．it was freezing cold in California at Christmas time
C．she was working all alone at the ticket counter
D．she was far away from her family and friends
2.The writer’s first impression of the old man was that he was ______.
A．gentle-looking and weak B．tired out and worried
C．confused and very sick D．sad and anxious
3.The old man wanted to fly to New Orleans to ______.
A．see his friends there
B．spend the Christmas with his family
C．visit his sister-in-law
D．undergo heart surgery
4.On hearing the old man say that he would wait at the airport the whole night, the writer felt a bit ashamed. This is because ______.
A．she felt sorry that she couldn’t do the old man a favor
B．she realized that someone was even more miserable than she felt
C．it took her a long time to find out how helpless the old man was
D．the old man was like an angel in the writer’s eyes
5.The writer called for a wheelchair for the old man because ______.
A．the old man had broken his leg when he was dropped off at the curb
B．the old man could spend the whole night on it at the airport
C．the old man was carrying a whole lot of clothes
D．the old man had had surgery just before and was very weak by then
6. By calling the old man the writer’s Christmas Man, the writer’s supervisor implied that ______.
A．the old man had told the writer a love story on Christmas
B．the old man had caused a lot of trouble for the writer on Christmas
C．the old man was the best gift the writer could have received on Christmas
D．the old man was the only customer the writer had served on Christmas
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Last Christmas was a very difficult time for me. My family and all of my close friends were back home in Florida, and I was all alone in a rather cold California. I was working too many hours and became very sick.
I was working a double shift at the Southwest Airlines ticket counter, it was about 9:00 PM on Christmas Eve, and I was feeling really miserable inside. There were a few of us working and very few customers waiting to be helped. When it was time for me to call the next person to the counter, I looked out to see the sweetest-looking old man standing with a cane. He walked very slowly over to the counter and in the faintest voice told me that he had to go to New Orleans. I tried to explain to him that there were no more flights that night and that he would have to go in the morning. He looked so confused and very worried. I tried to find out more information by asking if he had a reservation or if he remembered when he was supposed to travel, but he seemed to become more confused with each question. He just kept saying, “She said I have to go to New Orleans.”
After much time, I was able to at least find out that this old man had been dropped off at the curb on Christmas Eve by his sister-in-law and told to go to New Orleans, where he had family. She had given him some cash and told him just to go inside and buy a ticket. When I asked if he could come back tomorrow, he said that she was gone and that he had no place to stay. He then said he would wait at the airport until tomorrow. Naturally, I felt a little ashamed. Here I was feeling very sorry for myself about being alone on Christmas, when this angel named Clarence MacDonald was sent to me to remind me of what being alone really meant. It broke my heart.
Immediately, I told him we would get it all straightened out, and our Customer Service agent helped to book him a seat for the earliest flight the next morning. We gave him the senior citizen’s fare, which gave him some extra money for travelling. About this time he started to look very tired, and when I stepped around the counter to ask him if he was all right, I saw that his leg was wrapped in a bandage. He had been standing on it that whole time, holding a plastic bag full of clothes.
I called for a wheelchair. When the wheelchair came, we all stepped around to help him in, and I noticed a small amount of blood on his bandage. I asked how he hurt his leg, and he said that he had just had bypass surgery and an artery was taken from his leg. Can you imagine? This man had had heart surgery, and then shortly afterward, was dropped off at the curb to buy a ticket with no reservation to fly to New Orleans, alone!
I never really had a situation like this, and I wasn’t sure what I could do. I went back to ask my supervisors if we could find a place for him to stay. They both said yes, and they obtained a hotel voucher for Mr. MacDonald for one night and a meal ticket for dinner and breakfast. When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the porter a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the airport shuttle. I bent down to explain the hotel, food and itinerary (行程) again to Mr. MacDonald, and then patted him on the arm and told him everything would be just fine.
As he left he said, “Thank you,” bent his head and started to cry. I cried too. When I went back to thank my supervisor, she just smiled and said, “I love stories like that. He is your Christmas Man.”
- 1.
Last Christmas the writer had a miserable time because ______.
- A.there were more customers than usual waiting to be helped
- B.it was freezing cold in California at Christmas time
- C.she was working all alone at the ticket counter
- D.she was far away from her family and friends
- A.
- 2.
The writer’s first impression of the old man was that he was ______.
- A.gentle-looking and weak
- B.tired out and worried
- C.confused and very sick
- D.sad and anxious
- A.
- 3.
The old man wanted to fly to New Orleans to ______.
- A.see his friends there
- B.spend the Christmas with his family
- C.visit his sister-in-law
- D.undergo heart surgery
- A.
- 4.
On hearing the old man say that he would wait at the airport the whole night, the writer felt a bit ashamed. This is because ______.
- A.she felt sorry that she couldn’t do the old man a favor
- B.she realized that someone was even more miserable than she felt
- C.it took her a long time to find out how helpless the old man was
- D.the old man was like an angel in the writer’s eyes
- A.
- 5.
The writer called for a wheelchair for the old man because ______.
- A.the old man had broken his leg when he was dropped off at the curb
- B.the old man could spend the whole night on it at the airport
- C.the old man was carrying a whole lot of clothes
- D.the old man had had surgery just before and was very weak by then
- A.
- 6.
By calling the old man the writer’s Christmas Man, the writer’s supervisor implied that ______.
- A.the old man had told the writer a love story on Christmas
- B.the old man had caused a lot of trouble for the writer on Christmas
- C.the old man was the best gift the writer could have received on Christmas
- D.the old man was the only customer the writer had served on Christmas
- A.
听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1．What does the woman mean?
A．His brother should let them use the car．
B．The subway is fine with her．
C．A car wouldn’t be any faster．
2．What does the man have to do now?
A．Complete the research．
B．Write the research paper．
C．Finish typing the paper．
3．What do you know about the woman?
A．Perhaps she is a doctor．
B．She was seriously ill．
C．She didn’t want to see the film．
4．What does the woman mean?
A．The light isn’t bright enough．
B．The dining hall isn’t large enough．
C．She agrees with the man．
5．What does the man mean?
A．His daughter is too old for the club．
B．His daughter is too young to join the club．
C．His daughter is the eldest．
听力原文：(Text 1)
M：I’d like to drive to the concert but my brother has the car tonight．
W：Who needs a car?We can take the subway if we go a little earlier．
(Text 2)
W：How are you getting on with research paper?
M：I’ve finished all my research, but I haven’t been able to organize it, therefore I haven’t begun the paper yet．
(Text 3)
M：What a pity you missed the film last night．It was wonderful．
W：I would have gone to see it．But there was a patient seriously ill．
M：No wonder you didn’t come．
(Text 4)
M：The light in this dining hall is a little too bright, don’t you think so?
W：I’d say it’s perfect for a football stadium．
M：Quite right．
(Text 5)
W：Can I join your club, Dad?You know I’m interested in it, too．
M：You can when you get a bit older．
第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6～8题。
6．What time is it now?
A．It’s 10∶10 p.m．
B．It’s 10∶30 p.m．
C．It’s 9∶50 p.m．
7．How long will it take the woman to get to the railway station?
A．Fifteen minutes or less．
B．More than fifteen minutes．
C．Less than fifty minutes．
8．Why did the man invite the woman to his house?
A．They had a tea party．
B．They had a dinner party．
C．They had a dancing party．
听力原文：(Text 6)
W：What’s the time by your watch, David?
M：Just a minute．It’s ten to ten by my watch．
W：Is it?I had no idea it was so late．I must be going now．
M：Can’t you stay a bit longer?
W：I’m afraid not．I must catch the ten-thirty train back．
M：You’ve got plenty of time yet．The railway station’s very near．It won’t take you more than fifteen minutes to get there．
W：Well, I hate to rush at the last minute．
M：OK, drop in whenever you like．
W：Yes, I’ll do that．Thank you for asking me to dinner．It was a nice dinner party and I’ve enjoyed your cooking．
M：I’m glad you enjoyed yourself．Good night．
W：Good night．
听第7段材料，回答第9～11题。
9．Why does the man want to have a word with the waitress?
A．Because he has been kept waiting for a long time．
B．Because he wants to complain about the food．
C．Because he wants to pay the bill．
10．What do we learn about the restaurant?
A．It must be a new one．
B．They don’t know how to serve the people．
C．They need more waiters．
11．If the head waitress had known about his situation, what would
have happened?
A．She would have served him much earlier．
B．She would have brought another drink．
C．She would have turned to her boss for help．
听力原文：(Text 7)
M：Head waitress！ I want to have a word with you．
W：Yes, sir．I’ll be with you in a minute．Is there anything else you’d like to have, sir?
M：Anything else?We have been kept waiting here for almost an hour for the meal！
W：I’m terribly sorry about that, sir．There might be something wrong．You see, we’re short of help today．I’ll see to it at once．Would you like to have a drink while waiting?
M：Well, another martini．
W：Yes, sir．One moment．Here you are．I’ll be back in a minute．Here are the dishes you ordered, sir．
M：Thank you．
W：I’m very sorry to have kept you waiting．I wish I could have known earlier．
M：That’s all right．
W：Thank you for your understanding．I assure you it won’t happen again．
听第8段材料，回答第12～14题。
12．Who is Mary?
A．A student．
B．A worker．
C．A teacher．
13．What can we infer about Washington’s birthday from the conversation?
A．Maybe there was a national holiday near that day．
B．It was fine that day and nobody wanted to stay in．
C．It is perhaps a national holiday．
14．How did Mary go to the mountain on Washington’s birthday?
A．By bus．
B．By car．
C．By train．
听力原文：(Text 8)
M：Hey, Mary！You have really been gone a long time．Why is that?
W：Hi！Well, I talked with my teachers before I left about the work I would miss．Besides, my aunt in Denver made me study a lot there．
M：I thought she was your rich aunt．
W：Not very．But she didn’t have any children to raise, so she does have some money, even though she was a teacher．
M：How was the holiday?
W：Cold．．．at least three of the days while I was there．And I saw so many people on the mountain on Washington’s birthday．
M：The beaches were full on Washington’s birthday, too．It really was warm here, so lots of people went swimming．
W：Well, we should have stayed home that day．There were so many people．We took the train over to the mountain, so that at least we didn’t have to drive．It was a good thing we did－there were so many cars and buses, and no place to park anywhere．
M：Just like the beaches here．
听第9段材料，回答第15～17题。
15．When will the man come back from the trip?
A．December 22．
B．January 3．
C．January 13．
16．Which flights is the man going to take for his round trip?
A．Flight 220 and Flight 476．
B．Flight 476 and Flight 220．
C．Flight 220 and Flight 414．
17．How much will the man probably pay for the tickets?
A．About ＄952．
B．About ＄414．
C．About ＄476．
听力原文：(Text 9)
W：United Airlines．May I help you?
M：Yes．I’d like to book some tickets on your Flight 220, departing for Honolulu on December 22 at 7：30 in the evening．
W：Your name, please．
M：Mr．Wang Lin and Mrs．Li Fang．
W：Do you want to fly first or economy class?
M：Economy, please．
W：Yes, we still have room on that flight．Will this be a one-way trip?
M：No, round trip back to Chicago－on January 3．By the way, do you have any direct flights coming back?
W：Yes, we do．Flight 414, leaving Honolulu at 3∶00 p.m．flies non-stop back to Chicago．
M：That’s perfect．What’s the exact air fare?
W：Economy fare round trip from Chicago to Honolulu is ＄476 during busy season．
M：I see,…then our tickets are confirmed．
W：Yes, your seats are confirmed on those two flights．Please be at the airport at least one hour before departure．
听第10段材料，回答第18～20题。
18．How long does Mr．Hill have to work every day?
A．6 hours．
B．7 hours．
C．8 hours．
19．What’s the worst thing that can happen to a postman?
A．Having too many items to deal with a day．
B．Going to work late in the morning．
C．Delivering letters to people from abroad．
20．How does Mr．Hill feel about his work?
A．Boring．
B．Dangerous．
C．Satisfactory．
听力原文：(Text 10)
I’m Harley Hill．I was chosen as a postman of the year 1975．I have been a postman for 23 years．I love my work very much and it’s a fine life for me．Every week I work forty hours．I work from six o’clock in the morning to about two o’clock in the afternoon．The worst thing is being late in the morning．We handle 50 000 to 60 000 items a day．I deliver to probably 278 addresses．Some of them are from abroad．
I’m happy to see the smile on their faces when I give them a letter from home．I think if there is anything I don’t like about the job, it’s the snow and ice and especially dogs．I’ve been bitten about half a dozen times．I have got 3 years before I retire．I’m going to miss the job when I retire．