On July 4,1986, Americans celebrated the Staue of Liberty’s 100th birthday. Parades, speeches, fireworks, and other activities contributed to the great joy of the event. The celebration caused reporters and the local people to look back a century to the similar great joy that marked the official opening of the statue. The Statue of Liberty was completed in 1886, but the story began earlier. The idea for a statue was first suggested at a dinner party by Edouard de Laboulaye, a French historian. A guest at the party was Frederic Bartholdi, a young sculptor.

Most people who attended the dinner party soon forgot the idea, but Laboulaye and Bartholdi remembered it. In 1871, Bartholdi came to the United States to interest Americans in a statue that would link France and the United States in friendship. Many people in France had already been persuaded and contributed money to the project. Americans were also persuaded to build a fund (基金) for the statue. Much of the money came from schoolchildren.

After the idea had been accepted, Bartholdi set to work. He worked hard for many years. His friend Laboulaye died before the statue was completed. At last, in 1885, the statue was sent to the United States. It had to be shipped in sections and then put together for its weight and size.

Ever since then, 1886, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a symbol of freedom to millions of immigrants entering New York harbor.

1．Bartholdi made his first trip to the United States to talk about the Statue of Liberty in        .

       A．1986                   B．1871                   C．1885                   D．1886

2．The Statue of Liberty was shipped in sections because          .

       A．it was too large and heavy to move to USA as a whole

       B．USA had better means of putting it together than France

       C．the completed statue was a symbol of friendship for Americans

       D．putting it together cost less money and labour in USA

3．From the content, we may feel that the writer is        when he is writing the passage.

       A．calm                   B．curious                C．worried               D．modest

4．Which of the following titles best summarizes the content of the passage?

       A．Laboulaye and Bartholdi: Makers of the Statue of Liberty

       B．How People Made the Statue of Liberty Possible

       C．The 100 th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty

       D．The True Story of the Statue of Liberty

When Boris left school, he could not find a job. He tried hard and pestered (纠缠) his relatives, but they had problems of their own. He answered advertisements until he could not afford to buy any more stamps. Boris grew annoyed, then depressed, then a little hardened. Still he went on trying and still he failed. He began to think that he had no future at all.
“Why don't you start your own business?” one of his uncles told him. “The world is a money-locker. You'd better find a way of opening it.”
“But what can I do?”
“Get out and have a look round.” advised his uncle in a vague sort of way. “See what people want; then give it to them, and they will pay for it.”
Boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of a waste ground in the end. Then he set up his business as a cycle repairer. He worked hard, made friends with his customers and gradually managed to build up his goodwill and profit. A few months later, he found that he had more work than he could deal with by himself. He found a number of empty shops but they were all no good: in the wrong position, too expensive or with some other snag(障碍). But at long last, he managed to find an empty shop on a new estate where there were plenty of customers but no competition.
Boris and his assistant taught themselves how to repair scooters and motor-cycles. Slowly but surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last, Boris had managed to open the money-locker and found bank notes and gold coins inside.
【小题1】Which of the following best describes Boris' job hunting experience?

 Henry Ford was the first person to build cars which were cheap，strong and fast．He was able to sell millions of models because be could produce them in large numbers at a time；that is，he made a great many cars of exactly the same kind．Ford’s father hoped that his son would become a farmer，but the young man did not like the idea and he went to Detroit（底特律）where he worked as a mechanic（机械师）.By the age of 29，in 1892，he had built his first car．However，the car made in this way，the famous “Model T” did not appear until 1908-five years after Ford had started his great motor car factory.This car showed to be well-known that it remained unchanged for twenty years.Since Ford’s time，this way of producing cars in large numbers has become common in industry and has reduced the price of many goods which would otherwise be very expensive．

1.56.Henry Ford was the man to built _____ cars．

A.cheap and strong                         B.cheap and long

C.fast and expensive                       D.strong and slow

2.57.Ford was able to sell millions of cars，because_____.

A.he made many greet cars                 B.his cars are many

C.he made lots of cars of the same kind     D.both A and B

3.58.The young man became a mechanic，_______．

A.which was his father’s will  

B.which was against his own will

C.which was against his father’s will

D.which was the will of both

4.59.Ford built his own car factory_______.

A.in 1903        B.in 1908         C.in 1913         D.in 1897

He worked so hard that _____ (终于) his health became poor and fell ill frequently.