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At the beginning of my 8:00 a.m.class one Monday at University of Nevada,Las Vegas(UNLV),I cheerfully asked my students their weekend had been.“Not been very good”,one young man said.He'd had his wisdom teeth .The young man then went on to ask me why I seemed to be so cheerful.His question reminded me of I′d read somewhere before:”Every morning when you get up,you have a about how you want to approach life that day”,I said.“I choose to be cheerful”.
“Let me give you an ”,I continued.The other 60 students in the class their chatter and began to listen.one day,my car died on the way.I called AAA and asked them to send a .The secretary in the Provost’S office asked me what had happened.”This is my day”, I replied,smiling.”Your Car and today is your lucky day?”She Was .”What do you mean?”“I live 17 miles from here”,I replied.”My car have gone wrong anywhere along the freeway.It didn’t.Instead,it went wrong in the place:off the freeway,within walking distance of here.I’m able to teach my class,and I’ve been able to arrange for the tow truck to me after class.”The secretary’s eyes opened wide,and then she smiled.
I scanned the 60 faces in the lecture hall. the early hour,no one seemed to be asleep.Somehow,my story had them.Or maybe it Wasn’t the story .It had all started with a student's that I Was cheerful.A wise mail once said:”Who you are louder to me than anything you can say”.I suppose it must be so.
1.A.how B.what C.whether D.where
2.A.pulled B.brought C.taken D.removed
3.A.seldom B.always C.occasionally D.ever
4.A.something B.nothing C.anything D.everything
5.A.decision B.chance C.choice D.destination
6.A.excuse B.explanation C.instruction D.example
7.A.stopped B.interrupted C.disturbed D.prevented
8.A.truck B.tractor C.secretary D.policeman
9.A.strange B.terrible C.lucky D.pleasant
10.A.cuts up B.breaks up C.breaks down D.tears down
11.A.cheerful B.doubtful C.puzzled D.worried
12.A.could B.must C.should D.would
13.A.wrong B.proper C.perfect D.smooth
14.A.thus B.still C.hardly D.even
15.A.pick B.send C.meet D.visit
16.A.Despite B.Although C.Since D.Though
17.A.taught B.touched C.educated D.excited
18.A.after all B.in all C.above all D.at all
19.A.motivation B.inspiration C.observation D.appreciation
20.A.says B.speaks C.talks D.tells
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Too Much Happiness was written by Alice Munro,winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature,one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction and the owner of the Man Booker Price for Fiction.Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker,The Atlantic Monthly,and other publications,and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.
? The main character is Sophia Kovalevsky,a great Russian mathematician,writer and advocator拥护者)of women’s rights in the late nineteenth century. After visiting her lover Maxsim Kovalevsky in Riviera,she travels in Europe,ending up in Sweden,where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.The book writes about her journey from Riviera to Sweden.
??? The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual(知识分子)woman to achieve success and happiness.However,when she is going to die,Sophia says“too much happiness”.I think it’s irony(讽*11的).As reading the story,she has too many mental problems·First,as a woman mathematician,she was born in a wrong time .She was married to Vladimir Kovalevsky without love,called“a white marriage”.She explained that“no a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country.”She satisfied her marriage to seek her career.
??? Furthermore,when she sees a man look like Maxsim in the station,she says to herself,“of course,it would not be Maxsim,what could he be doing in Paris?”She doesn’t want to face the fact because she doesn’t want to lose her hope.She believes they will marry in spring.And in her letter to Julia she says:“it is to be happiness after all,happiness after all.Happiness.”She is cheating herself. In fact,the man does not want to marry her,and the happiness she expected doesn’t take place at all.
??? Finally, I conclude that the end must be a tragedy(悲剧).From the very first pages the atmosphere is gloomy黯淡的)and threatening.“One of us will die this year.”“Because we have gone walking in a graveyard(墓地)on the first day of the New Year.”Some pages further,“a black cat across their path”all reflect it will be a bad ending.Not because she had some problems with her lung,but because her life does not bring her happiness,and because of these disharmony things that happen in her life.
1.We can infer from the passage that__·
A.Sophia was born in a wrong time and was mentally ill
B.women were not fairly treated in Europe in Sophia’s time
C.Sophia loved travelling around Europe to meet `different people
D.unmarried women were forbidden to learn mathematics at that time
2.The underlined phrase“the fact”in Paragraph 4 most probably refers to the fact that
A.her husband refuses to divorce B.she can’t teach in university
C.she falls in love with Maxsim D.Maxsim doesn’t want to marry her
3.Why does the author name this book Too Much Happiness?
A.It is used to suggest that the story must be a comedy.
B.It’s a phrase repeatedly used by Sophia herself to her friend.
C.It’s used in an ironic way to show that Sophia isn’t happy at all.
D.It’s to show Sophia is very happy to achieve success in her career.
4.What can we conclude from Sophia’s experience?
A.It’s hard for an educated woman to achieve success in Europe at that time.
B.Russian women were not allowed to go abroad without a white marriage.
C.Married women could travel freely across Europe in the late nineteenth century.
D.Seeing a black cat across the path would bring people to death in the end.
5.In a newspaper,this passage is most probably in the section of____.
A. Entertainment B. Travel C.Career D. Culture
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He works ten hours a day, makes more than US $ 98000 a year, doesn't bother to take holidays, dresses as he pleases. He's never been happier and is looking for another job. This 33-year-old white, university-educated person is the typical (典型的) Internet worker, according to a study by the Industry Standard, a San Francisco-based news magazine.
There is also a reasonable chance that his employer will arrange his dry cleaning, allow him to bring his dog to work, offer him flee massages (按摩) and give him stock options(股票自由买卖权). And he still thinks people in other firms are doing better,
The typical worker, it appears, not only enjoys an income about three times the national average but also enjoys himself. At present 2.5 million people are employed by Intemet firms in the US. The results of the study give plenty of reasons why so many people think the grass is greener in Silicon Valley.
Even after tech-stocks sharply went down in April, closing many start-ups, there is still a mood of enthusiasm (热情) and special advantage among those still employed. So what makes 52 percent of them “very happy?”“Demanding work” is given as the main reason and “salary” is unsurprisingly close behind. Those questioned in the study also listed working weekends and long holidays as signs of the pleasure of the workplaces.
Only 13 percent were paid for the extra hours work while 14 percent put more than 12 hours work on an average day. “It wasn't all about money,” wrote Maryann Thompson in the introduction to the study, “It was fun. What other job could a college graduate walk into at 10 am, wearing shorts and sandals? And spend days with his dog and his feet, working on projects that required real brain power-then leave at 9 pm, with a belly full of free food, a few happy-hour beers and a big fat check?” The average income works out at $ 104000 with the average basic salary at $ 84700.
1.The job as an Internet worker
[ ]
A.calls for strict rules
B.leaves more time for housework
C.requires shorter working hours
D.allows much freedom
2.The most important reason that an Internet worker likes his job is that the job ________.
[ ]
A.brings him in $ 104000 year, much more than the average salary
B.requires great effort but gives him a great deal of fun
C.allows him long holidays and working weekends, which brings him much pleasure
D.promises him a big chance to rise and much freedom to have a change
3.Many Internet workers think that ________ is a much better workplace for an Internetworker.
[ ]
A.the present position
B.San Francisco
C.Silicon Valley
D.a none-tech job
4.The whole passage mainly tells us ________.
[ ]
A.college graduates are greatly attracted by Internet work
B.Internet workers earn much more than an average worker
C.youth prefer much more freedom in their work
D.employers try many ways to satisfy their Internet workers
查看习题详情和答案>>F . Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St.Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary:“ My own happiness in the past often got such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda had an effect on his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to(沉迷于) alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St.Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A. f-c-e-a-b-d B. b-e-a-f-c-d C. f-d-e-c-b-a D. b-f-c-d-e-a
We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald .
A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about .
A. Zelda’s personal life
B. Zelda’s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world
查看习题详情和答案>>F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary, “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged, he continued with the novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to record his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night (1934) and The Love of the Last Tycoon (1940). While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
Which is the correct order about Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to record his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A. f-c-e-a-b-d B. b-e-a-f-c-d C. f-d-e-c-b-a D. b-f-c-d-e-a
We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald _____.
A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about ______.
A. Zelda’s personal life
B. Zelda’s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world
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