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If you ever get the feeling that you’re on your own, then spare a thought for Don Sammons.
The hamlet（小镇） of Buford in Wyoming is not even a sparsely-populated area. It’s a single-populated（人口稀薄的）area, as the 60-year-old is the only man, woman or child living there.
But even though the ‘population one’ hamlet is 8,000ft up a cold mountain, he denies feeling lonely and runs an isolated petrol station and convenience shop.
Mr. Sammons left Los Angeles with his wife and bought the tiny town with six buildings to escape their busy lifestyle.
When the couple moved，there were seven people living in Buford working for a railroad that passes nearby, but they all moved away to bigger towns by the mid-1990s.
Then his wife died 15 years ago and his son, now aged 26, moved to Colorado three years ago. So that left Mr. Sammons in Buford on his own.
He gets about 1,000 visitors a day to the village during the summer, which has a billboard proclaiming（宣布） his small empire（帝国）, but this drops to around 100 during the winter，in which the winds often blow at 70mph.
Mr Sammons turned a school house, which operated between 1905 and 1962, into his office and made another old store built in 1895 into a four-car garage.
He lives in a three-bedroom log cabin and enjoys a commute（通勤来往） of 200 yards to his workplace. ‘I'm the king of the castle here,’ he said.
Buford was formed in 1866 as military outpost (军事警哨)‘Fort Sanders’, to protect workers building a railroad. It was once home to 2,000 people - most of them foreign migrant（移民） rail workers – a post office was built in 1880. The town was named Buford after Civil War general John Buford following the opening.
The town was sold to a private buyer by the railroad company in 1970 and Mr. Sammons arrived with his wife ten years later after working in the moving business in California.
56. The text is mainly about _______.
A. Don Sammons’ daily life B. the history of a small town
C. the cultural custom of a town D. an old town and its only resident
57. When did Mr. Sammons buy the town Buford?
A. In 1970 B. In 1980. C. In 1990. D. In 2000
58. Mr. Sammons bought the town with the main purpose of ______.
A. making money by doing business B. opening up the tourism industry
C. leading a peaceful and quiet life D. avoid being bothered by other people
59. Which one is the right order of the following events about the town of Buford?
a. A post office was built there
b. All rail workers left the town.
c. Many foreign migrant rail workers worked here.
d. A school house was operated here.
e. A store was built here.
A. c-a-e-b-d. B. c-e-a-d-b. C. c-a-d-e-b D. c-a-e-d-b.
60. According to the text, Dom Sammons _________.
A. lives alone but feels satisfied with his life in the town
B. sometimes feels lonely because his son is away
C. has many friends who come to see him every summer
D. is used to the warm weather in winter in the town
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Electronic mail(e-mail) 1 (start)in the late 1960s by the U．S．military．By the 1980s, academics in a number of fields were using e-mail for professional collaboration．The early 1990s 2 (see)an explosion of the use of e-mail and other computer networking tools for a wide range of professional, academic, and personal purposes．
E-mail is a way of 3 (send)a message from one computer to one or more other computers around the world．First, you 4 (短语动词)the e-mail address of the person you are sending the message to．Then you write the message, or 5 (direct)in a special e-mail software program or first in a word processing program and transfer it into the e-mail software．You should push a button 6 a simple command to send the message．The computer system you are connected to will break the message up into tiny pieces and send them 7 (electronic)to the destination．The pieces might travel numerous routes through other computers on the way．Usually within 2-3-minutes, the pieces will all arrive at their destination, where the 8 (receive)computer will reassemble them into a message．The person 9 the message can check his or her mailbox at a 10 (convenience)time and read the mail．
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Electronic mail(e-mail) 1 (start)in the late 1960s by the U．S．military．By the 1980s, academics in a number of fields were using e-mail for professional collaboration．The early 1990s 2 (see)an explosion of the use of e-mail and other computer networking tools for a wide range of professional, academic, and personal purposes．
E-mail is a way of 3 (send)a message from one computer to one or more other computers around the world．First, you 4 (短语动词)the e-mail address of the person you are sending the message to．Then you write the message, or 5 (direct)in a special e-mail software program or first in a word-processing program and transfer it into the e-mail software．You should push a button 6 (give)a simple command to send the message．The computer system you are connected to will break the message up into tiny pieces and send them 7 (electronic)to the destination．The pieces might travel numerous routes through other computers on the way．Usually within 2～3 minutes, the pieces will all arrive at their destination, where the 8 (receive)computer will reassemble them into a message．The person 9 (receive)the message can check his or her mailbox at a 10 (convenience)time and read the mail．
With his attention________on the shops along the roadside，he knocked an old man down while riding to school.
A concentrating B．concentrated C．to concentrate D．concentrates
答案 B
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We often find many people are complaining about their work around us．It's clear that we can not deal with the pressure caused by work at all．So how can we have a happy working day? 1
Make yourself energetic every morning．It means you should not stay up too late．You should take a comfortable shower and go to bed before 22：00 every night． 2
Keep smiling once you open your eyes．When getting up from your bed, you should always keep a smile on your face． 3 And you can listen to some soft music you like with your headset on the way to yoru company．
4 Before you get down to work, you can make a list of the work that you are going to finish today．You will find out what are the most important things to do and what are the less important ones．
Improve your relationships in the office．Make a habit of saying hello actively to your colleagues, as a gesture of friendship．You will be happier if you can get along well with your colleagues and your life will go more smoothly．
5 The key is whether you have a possive attitude．The above are my suggestions．Hope they can help you to have a great day!
A．In short, we create real happiness for ourselves．
B．In fact, it's not so difficult if we can do as follows．
C．List out what you are going to do in the office today．
D．Therefore, we should stop complaining about our work．
E．Say hello to your family members and friends on the road．
F．Have the right attitude towards work and the people around us．
G．Plenty of sleep is healthy and it can offer you a whole day's energy．