摘要:(10-11.山东省济南市历城区高二上期中)I still can’t believe that I am this prize, which is a 3-week holiday in the Bahamas. A. taking up B. speeding up C. sweeping up D. putting forward

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It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’  hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.

But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”

We moaned(不满,发牢骚) and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”

So pretty soon there were these two peevish(坏脾气的)boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly(不情愿) among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.

The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers(河狸). For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.

It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip(快速翻动)of a page.

Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.

Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.

But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.

1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ___________.

A.the author and his brother had done well in school

B.the author had been very concerned about his school work

C.the author had spent much time watching TV after school

D.the author had realized how important schooling was

2.Which of the following is not true about the author’s family?

A.He came from a middle-class family.

B.He came from a single-parent family.

C.His mother worked as a cleaner.

D.His mother had received little education.

3.How did the two boys feel about going to the library at first?

A.They were afraid

B.They were reluctant.

C.They were impatient.

D.They were eager to go.

4.The author began to love books for the following reasons EXCEPT that ___________.

A.he began to see something in his mind

B.he could visualize what he read in his mind

C.he could go back to read the books again

D.he realized that books offered him new experience

 

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New York State has passed the USA’s first state law banning motorists talking on hand-held cell phones. The ban will begin November 1, although drivers caught using hand-held cell phones will be given only warnings during the first month.
First-time violators(违法者) will face a $100 fine. A second time call for a $200 fine and every violation after that will cost$500.
At least a dozen localities(地方) have established bans, starting in 1999; and 40 states have had bans proposed but not passed.At least 23 countries, including the Great Britain, Italy, Israel and Japan, ban drivers from using hand-held cell phones.
There are about 115 million cell phones in use in the United States and more than 6 million in New York State.
“To think that I’m not going to use cell phone when at the same time I can still use my laptop, I still can read a paper, I can still change my pants(裤子) while driving 65 mph. I think there’s just something wrong,” an official said.
Other critics noted that other things like eating, drinking coffee and applying make-up while driving posed(造成) at least as much of a concern. They suggested that the ban include a broader range of things.
1.How much fine will a hand-held cell phone user receive if he has been caught using it four times while driving after November?
A.$500.     B.$1000.   C.$1200.   D.$1300.
2.We can see from this passage that _______. 
A.the ban has been put into effect in most states in the U. S.
B.many of the developed countries forbid drivers using hand-held cell phones
C.over fifty localities or states ban drivers from using hand-held cell phones
D.more people in the U. S. are against the ban than for it
3.The official mentioned in this passage _______. 
A.does not agree with this ban
B.doesn’t believe using hand-held cell phones while driving will cause any danger
C.doesn’t understand why hand-held cell phones alone should be banned among many others
D.believes changing pants while driving will cause greater danger
4.The writer intends to tell us in the last paragraph that _______.
A.it is not fair to have this ban passed
B.the ban will never be passed in the whole country
C.more activities of the same kind should also be banned
D.the ban will meet with more criticism
5.This article is most probably taken from _______.
A.a newspaper article            B.an advertisement
C.a personal diary                    D.a letter

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