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　　Have you ever wondered why some people are successful in business and others are not? Here's a story about one successful businessperson．He started out washing dishes and today he owns 168 restaurants．

　　Zubair -Kazi was born in Bhatkal, a small town in southwest India．His dream was to be an airplane pilot, and when he was 16 years old, he learned to fly a small plane．

　　At the age of 23 and with just a little money in his pocket, Mr．Kazi moved to the United States．He hoped to get a job in the airplane industry in California．Instead, he ended up working for a company that rented cars．

　　While Mr．Kazi was working at the car rental(租赁的)company, he frequently ate at a nearby KFC restaurant．To save money on food, he decided to get a job with KFC．For two months, he worked as a cook's assistant．His job was to clean the kitchen and help the cook．"I didn't like it," Mr．Kazi says, "but I always did the best I could．"

　　One day, Mr．Kazi's two co-workers failed to come to work．That day, Mr．Kazi did the work of all three people in the kitchen．This really impressed the owners of the restaurant．

　　A few months later, the owners needed a manager for a new restaurant．They gave the job to Mr．Kazi．He worked hard as the manager and soon the restaurant was making a profit．

　　A few years later, Mr．Kazi heard about a restaurant that was losing money．The restaurant was dirty inside and the food was terrible．Mr．Kazi borrowed money from a bank and bought the restaurant．For the first six months, Mr．Kazi worked in the restaurant from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., seven days a week．He and his wife cleaned up the restaurant, remodeled the front of the building, and improved the cooking．They also tried hard to please the customers．lf someone had to wait more than ten minutes for their food, Mrs．Kazi gave them a free soda．Before long the restaurant was making a profit．

　　A year later, Mr．Kazi sold his restaurant for a profit．With the money he earned, he bought three more restaurants that were losing money．Again, he cleaned them up, improved the food, and retrained the employees．Before long these restaurants were making a profit, too．

　　Today Mr．Kazi owns 168 restaurants, but he isn't planning to stop there．He's looking for more poorly managed restaurants to buy．"I love it when I go to buy a restaurant and find it's a mess," Mr．Kazi says．"The only way it can go is up．"

(1)

When Mr．Kazi was young, his dream was to _________．
[　　]
A．	be an airplane pilot．
B．	sell cars．
C．	own a restaurant．
D．	become a good cook．

(2)

Mr．Kazi decided to work with KFC to _________．
[　　]
A．	learn how to cook．
B．	save money for a car．
C．	save money on food．
D．	learn how to run a restaurant．

(3)

Mr．Kazi became the manager of a new restaurant because _________．
[　　]
A．	his co-workers praised him．
B．	he was a good cook．
C．	he worked very hard．
D．	he knew how to run a restaurant．

(4)

To save a failing restaurant, Mr．Kazi did all the following things EXCEPT to _________．
[　　]
A．	clean it up
B．	improve the food．
C．	retrain the employees．
D．	advertise for it．

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Jim and his brother lived on the 80th level . When coming home one day to their 　36the　lifts were not working and they had to 　37 　the stairs.　

After reaching the 20th level , breathless and tired , they decided to 38 　 their bags and come back for them the next day . They climbed　 39 . When they got to the 40th level , Jim’s brother started to　 40 . However , they 　41 to climb the flights of steps, arguing all the way to the 60th floor.

They then　 42　 that they only had 20 levels more to climb and decided to stop arguing and

continue climbing 　43 . They reached their home at long last . Each stood calmly before the door and waited for the other to 　44　 the door. And they realized that the 　45 　were in their bags which were left on the 20th floor.

This story is a reflection（映） of our life. When 　46 , many of us are asked to do as our

parents and teachers expect. We　 47 　get to do the things that we really like and love and are under too much pressure 　48　 by the age of 20 , we get tired and decide to 　49　 this load（负担） .

Once 　50　 the pressure , we work harder to realize our dreams . But by the time we reach 40 years old , we find it 　51 　to realize them and begin to feel unsatisfied and complain , and　 52 them . Reaching 60 , we realize that we have 53 　cause for complaint any more and we begin to walk the final stage with　 54 　.

So follow your dreams and　 55　 for them carefully , never complain and lose your key , and your dreams will come true one day.

36. A. shame	B. surprise	C. happiness	D. disappointment
37. A. clean	B. replace	C. fix	D. climb
38. A. pack	B. leave	C. carry	D. find
39. A. over	B. down	C. on	D. out
40. A. rest	B. complain	C. work	D. explain
41. A. continued	B. refused	C. forgot	D. demanded
42. A. realized	B. advised	C. hoped	D. agreed
43. A. in order	B. in peace	C. in turn	D. in time
44. A. lock	B. answer	C. close	D. open
45. A. tickets	B. books	C. keys	D. phones
46. A. lonely	B. sick	C. successful	D. young
47. A. always	B. rarely	C. again	D. finally
48. A. only if	B. so that	C. even if	D. as if
49. A. take up	B. set up	C. give up	D. put up
50. A. free of	B. tired of	C. worried about	D. concerned about
51. A. hard	B. interesting	C. strange	D. easy
52. A. accept	B. avoid	C. share	D. lose
53. A. much	B. all	C. little	D. some
54. A. regret	B. pleasure	C. fear	D. danger
55. A. look	B. ask	C. wait	D. prepare

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　　 A question often put to specialists on fishes is "How long do fishes live?" Specialists find it difficult to give an exact answer though it seems to be a very simple question. Actually this question is not so simple as it seems. There are thousands of different kinds of fishes, and they are different from one another in size and life-span (寿命). Moreover (此外), it is not easy to find out just how long a fish lives in its natural state.

　　 We can find out how old a fish is by studying its size, but we cannot say how much longer it would have lived if we had not caught it.

　　 We may feed fishes and record their life-span, but we cannot be sure that this is the length of time they would have lived if they had　　 been left alone.

　　 We may make markings to show how fast the fishes grow so that we can calculate (计算) the age of the largest on record, but unless this large fish dies of old age, we are still not in a position to know　　 its natural life-span.

　　 Unlike human beings, fishes do not stop growing when they reach maturity (成年). They continue to grow as long as they live, although　　 the rate of growth slows down in grown-up fishes.　　　　

(1) What specialists feel difficult to know is ________.

[　　]

A. the age of fishes　　　　

B. the size of fishes　　　　

C. the life-span of the fishes he feeds 　　

D. the life-span of fishes living freely 　　

(2) We may know a fish's age by studying __________.

[　　]

A. how heavy it is　　

B. how big it is　　　　

C. its rate of growth　　

D. the position it lives　　

(3) Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A. The heavier a fish is, the older it is. 　　

B. If we let a fish alone, we can hardly know its life-span. 　　

C. Old as a fish is, it will keep growing fast before its death. 　　

D. When a man is old, he will grow much more slowly than an old fish. 　　

(4) Which of the following is not true?

[　　]

A. If we feed a fish from its birth to its death, we correctly record its life-span.

B. A fish's weight has nothing to do with its life-span.

C. Human beings stop growing when they have grown up.

D. Specialists can know how fast a fish grows, but they do not know how long it will live.　　

(5) Which of the following do you think is the best title for this　　 passage?

[　　]

A. How Long Do Fishes Live? 　　

B. Easy or Difficult?　　　　

C. The Difference Between Human Beings and Fishes. 　　

D. Specialists and Fishes.

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　　Christopher Columbus was a great sailor．He was born and grew up in Genoa, one of the oldest European seaports．As a youth he made several voyages in the Mediterranean, where the greatest seamen of ancient times were born．

　　At the age of twenty－four, by lucky chance, he was thrown into Lisbon, the center of European oceanic activities．There, while employed partly in making charts and partly on long voyages under the Portuguese flag, he thought over the great enterprise(事业)that few but a sailor would have planned, and none but a sailor could have completed．

　　His idea was to reach“The Indies”－Eastern Asia by sailing west．It took about ten years to get support for this plan, and he never did complete it because a vast continent stood in the way．America was discovered by Columbus purely by accident and was named for another man．We now honor Columbus for doing something that he never intended to do and never knew that he had done．

　　Yet we are right in so honoring him, for he had the persistence(坚韧)，the knowledge, and the courage to sail thousands of miles into an unknown ocean to make the most splendid and most far－reaching geographical discovery in recorded human history．

(1)

According to the passage, why did Columbus go to Lisbon?
[　　]
A．	In order to learn chart－making．
B．	For no particular reason and without planning to do so．
C．	Because he couldn't find work in his native Genoa．
D．	Because he needed or hired sailors for a voyage to the Indies．

(2)

According to the passage, in Columbus's time Lisbon was the ________．
[　　]
A．	only place he could have gone to complete his education
B．	place of more shipping and sailing business than in any other part of Europe
C．	most important center in the world for ocean exploration and discovery
D．	only place in which he could have found support for his voyages of discovery

(3)

The author of the passage regards the discovery of America as ________．
[　　]
A．	something every man might dream of doing
B．	the most important event in all of the history of mankind
C．	a geographical discovery of the first importance
D．	a curious accident whose importance has been described more than it really is

(4)

According to the author, which of the following statements is true?
[　　]
A．	Columbus spent ten years persuading the Portuguese to support his plan for exploring a new continent．
B．	Columbus didn't mean to sail to America and never realized he had discovered a new continent．
C．	Columbus realized that he had found a good route to the East．
D．	Columbus should be respected for having named the continent that he discovered．

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　　In the age of reality television, success isn't the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.

　　Hung recently has made an agreement with US－based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full－length record, titled “The True Idol(偶像)” on April 6.

　　The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version(改写本) of Ricky Martin's “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3”, on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid－act.

　　Hung's response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.” That's good, because any common person would have plenty to regret: the off－key singing; the blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high; the terrible dancing; the hips jerking(摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.

　　But, it was this very bad act that sold well.

　　Marc Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Everyone of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite songs at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off－key and completely unworried. That's what William did and immediately won the hearts of Americans.”

　　Whatever it is, for the moment it's big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.

　　So, what does Hung think of this?

　　“There were all these people saying things about me. A．lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn't have much respect for me and some were kind of mean.”

　　Now, he says he's not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour(魅力) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn't been easy.

1．What is the main idea of this passage?

[　　]

A．Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.

B．Hung's performance attracted the public eye.

C．How an unsuccessful person became famous.

D．Success sometimes does not require hard work.

2．Hung was popular in America for all the following reasons EXCEPT ________.

[　　]

A．his shirt and pants

B．his off－key singing

C．his hips jerking

D．his excellent version

3．What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 6 refer to?

[　　]

A．William Hung.

B．Hung's bad act.

C．Hung's website.

D．The public's opinion.

4．Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung?

a．The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung.

b．The judges cut Hung off in mid－act in the singing contest.

c．Hung became popular among Americans.

d．Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best.

e．Three websites put Hung's funny performance on the Internet.

[　　]

5．Why was Hung able to win the hearts of Americans?

[　　]

A．His success was based on his own hard work.

B．He attracted people's attention in the contest.

C．He was good－looking though he didn't sing well.

D．His character was completely different from other idols'.

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