Tom Brennan was working in a Philadelphia office building when he noticed a black bag. The bag contained a book. This chance discovery ended a 12-day search by the Library Company of Philadelphia for a historical treasure-a 120-page diary kept 190 years age by Deborah Logan,"a woman who knew everybody in her day,"James Green ,the librarian told the magazine American Libraries. Most of the diary is a record of big events in Philadelphia ,It also includes a description of British soldiers burning Washington .D. C in the war of 1812.She describes President James Madison on horseback as "perfectly shaking with fear"during the troubled days.George Wash- ington,she writes,mistook her for the wife of a French man.and praised her excellent English ．The adventure of the lost book began September 4 when Cory Luxmoore arrived from Eng- land to deliver the diary of his ancestor(祖先）to the Library Company,which he and his wife considered to be the best home for the diary. Green told American Libraries he had the diary in his possession"a bout five minutes"when Luxmoore took it back because he had promised to show it to one other person.On returning to his hotel after showing the percious book to Green,Luxmoore waas shocked to realise that he had left it in the taxi. Without any delay,Green began calling every taxi company in the city,with no luck,"I've felt sick since then,"Luxmoore told reporters.According to Green.no one has yet learned how the diary came to the office building .Tom Brennan received a reward(奖励)of 1,000,Philadelphia gained another treasure for its histo- ry,and Luxmoore told reporters,"It's wonderful news.I'm on high".

1.This article mainly tells about the story of ＿＿＿＿＿

A.a lost diary

B.Deborah Logan

C.Cory Luxmoore

D.the Library Company

2.From the text,we learn that the diary is now owned by＿＿＿＿＿

A.Tom Brennan

B.an unknown person

C.a Philadelphia magazine

D.the Library Company of Philadelphia

3.Philadelphia is thought to be the best home for the diary because＿＿＿＿＿.

A.it was written in Philadelphia

B.it tells stories about Philadelphia

C.people in the city are interested in old things

D.the British and the Americans once fought in Philadelphia

4.Which of the following shows the right order of what happened to the diary?

a-Tom Brennan found the book in an office building.

b-The book was shown to James Green.

c-Cory Luxmoore arrived from England.

d-The book was left behind in a taxi.

A.a.b.c.d    B.c.b.d.a     C.a.c.d.b     D.c.a.b.d

5.What did Cory Luxmoore mean when he said "I'm on high"?

A.I'm rich    B.I'm famous    C.I'm excited     D.I'm lucky.

A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in West Germany.

“Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world,” said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study.

Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in “Women’s Liberation”. “I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says. “And I don’t think many women do. But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones and open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there…or engineers or scientists?”

56. A lot of women in       wish that they were born men.

    A. European countries

B. West Germany

    C. West Europe

D. West Germany

57. “It is still a men’s would.” Means “       ”

  A. There’re more men than women in the world.

  B. There’re more men scientists or engineers than women in the world.

  C. Women cannot live without men.

  D. Women have not been given the same chance as men.

58. Anne Harper considers that women should      .

    A. be really liberated

B. live a better life

   C. be well paid

D. get better jobs than men

59. Anne Harper doesn’t wish that she were a man because she      .

  A. has got a very good job

  B. believes in “Women Liberation”

  C. does the work that a man can’t do

  D. isn’t looked down upon by anyone

60. Which of the following is NOT true?

  A. Usually the best jobs are not open to women.

  B. Women are less paid than men for the same job.

  C. There’re more men pilots, engineers and scientists than women.

The building was named Ford Hall________ a man named James Ford.

1. A.
   in place of
2. B.
   in celebration of
3. C.
   in memory of
4. D.
   in favor of

Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet…You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paused: “But you’ll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”

It was a rare — indeed unique — occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout’s Wonderful Bag, a leather case.

Grout’s aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout’s day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn’t do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated （充气的） tyre.

So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse （椭圆）. Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.

Will the young Fitzsimons’s folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there’s plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than ??1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane — minus wheels, of course — as hand baggage.

Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress.

We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike        .

A. was portable

B. had a folding wheel

C. could be put in a pocket

D. looked like a magic carpet

We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable        .

A. were difficult to separate

B. could be split into 6 pieces

C. were fitted with solid tyres

D. were hard to carry on a train

We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons’s invention        .

A. kept the tyre as a whole piece

B. was made into production soon

C. left little room for improvement

D. changed our views on bag design

Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A. Three folding bike inventors

B. The making of a folding bike

C. Progress in folding bike design

D. Ways of separating a bike wheel

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       Nearly two decades has passed , I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles ,it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth .Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.

       When James was a teenager ,his father   36   him to a fur factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression. The   37  was to get James a job.

       He entered the factory ,and immediately felt as if the   38   had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot , the windows covered with dust, and the   39   were packed tightly together ,running like trains. The fur hairs were flying ,   40   a thickened air ,and the workers,

  41   the pieces of fur together , were bent over their needles   42  the boss marched up and down the rows ,searching for them to go faster .James could hardly   43  . He stood next to his father ,frozen with fear ,hoping the boss wouldn’t   44  at him , too.

       During lunch break ,his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   45 if there was any work for his son. But    46  there was barely enough  47  for the adult labours ,for no one would give it up once he takes a job.

       Thus , for James, it was a   48  . He hated the place. He made a   49  that he kept to the end of his like: he would never do any work that brought    50  to someone else ,and he would never allow himself to    51   money off the seat of others.

       “What will you do?” his mother , Eva , would ask him.

       “I don’t know,” he   52  say. He ruled out law ,because he didn’t like  53   , and he ruled out medicine , because he couldn’t take the    54  of blood.

       “What will you do?”

55  , my best professor I ever had became he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

36．A．sent   B．took  C．carried      D．admitted

37．A．situation   B．condition  C．idea   D．way

38．A．lights       B．doors C．chances     D．walls

39．A．goods       B．workers    C．machines  D．vehicles

40．A．creating    B．sending     C．taking       D．disturbing

41．A．collecting B．pulling     C．drawing    D．sewing

42．A．as     B．after  C．if      D．though

43．A．breathe     B．see    C．walk D．hear

44．A．attack       B．scold C．rush  D．scream

45．A．doubting   B．questioning      C．asking      D．demanding

46．A．also   B．still   C．yet    D．even

47．A．time  B．work C．office       D．occupation

48．A．comforting      B．regretting  C．blessing    D．forgiving

49．A．request     B．promise    C．plan  D．arrangement

50．A．harm B．injury       C．damage     D．inconvenience

51．A．pay   B．save  C．make D．let

52．A．should      B．would       C．could D．might

53．A．police       B．lawyers     C．judges      D．government

54．A．sight B．feel   C．sense D．scenery

55．A．Generally B．Luckily     C．Eventually       D．Basically