My heart sank when the man at the immigration counter gestured to the back room. I was born and raised in America, and this was Miami, where I live, but they weren’t quite ready to let me in yet.

　 “Please wait in here, Ms. Abujaber,” the immigration officer said. My husband, with his very American last name, accompanied me. He was getting used to this. The same thing had happened recently in Canada when I’d flown to Montreal to speak at a book event. That time they held me for 45 minutes. Today we were returning from a literary festival in Jamaica, and I was shocked that I was being sent “in back” once again.

　　The officer behind the counter called me up and said, “Miss, your name looks like the name of someone who’s on our wanted list. We’re going to have to check you out with Washington.”

　　“How long will it take?”

　　“Hard to say…a few minutes,” he said, “We’ll call you when we’re ready for you.” After an hour, Washington still hadn’t decided anything about me.

“Isn’t this computerized?” I asked at the counter, “Can’t you just look me up?”

“Just a few more minutes,” they assured me.

　　After an hour and a half, I pulled my cell phone out to call the friends I was supposed to meet that evening. An officer rushed over. “No phones!” he said, “For all we know you could be calling a terrorist cell and giving them information.”

　　“I’m just a university professor,” I said. My voice came out in a squeak.

　　“Of course you are. And we take people like you out of here in leg irons every day.”

　　I put my phone away.

　　My husband and I were getting hungry and tired. Whole families had been brought into the waiting room, and the place was packed with excitable children, exhausted parents, and even a flight attendant.

　　I wanted to scream, to jump on a chair and shout: “I’m an American citizen; a novelist; I probably teach English literature to your children.”

After two hours in detention (扣押), I was approached by one of the officers. “You’re free to go,” he said. No explanation or apologies. For a moment, neither of us moved. We were still in shock. Then we leaped to our feet.

　　“Oh, one more thing,” he handed me a tattered photocopy with an address on it, “If you aren’t happy with your treatment, you can write to this agency.”

　　“Will they respond?” I asked.

　　“I don’t know—I don’t know of anyone who’s ever written to them before.” Then he added,” By the way, this will probably keep happening each time you travel internationally.”

　　“What can I do to keep it from happening again?”

　　He smiled the empty smile we’d seen all day, “Absolutely nothing.”

　　After telling several friends about our ordeal, probably the most frequent advice I’ve heard in response is to change my name. Twenty years ago, my own graduate school writing professor advised me to write under a pen name so that publishers wouldn’t stick me in what he called “the ethnic ghetto”—a separate, secondary shelf in the bookstore. But a name is an integral part of anyone’s personal and professional identity—just like the town you’re born in and the place where you’re raised.

　　Like my father, I’ll keep the name, but my airport experience has given me a whole new perspective on what diversity and tolerance are supposed to mean. I had no idea that being an American would ever be this hard.

1.The author was held at the airport because ______.

A. she and her husband returned from Jamaica

B. her name was similar to a terrorist’s

C. she had been held in Montreal

D. she had spoken at a book event

2.She was not allowed to call her friends because ______.

A. her identity hadn’t been confirmed yet

B. she had been held for only one hour and a half

C. there were other families in the waiting room

D. she couldn’t use her own cell phone

3.We learn from the passage that the author would ______ to prevent similar experience from happening again.

A. write to the agency?????????? B. change her name??

C. avoid traveling abroad??????? D. do nothing

4.Her experiences indicate that there still exists ______ in the US.

A. hatred???????????????????? B. discrimination?????

C. tolerance?????????????????? D. diversity

5.The author sounds ______ in the last paragraph.

A. impatient?? B. bitter???????? C. worried??????????? D. ironic (具有讽刺意味的)

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　　The most frightening words in the English language are,“Our computer is down.”Yon hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport wailing for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said,“I' m Sony. I can' t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”

　　“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”

　　“I can' t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”

　　I looked down the counter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, What do yon do.

　　“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”

　　So when it goes down, you go down with it.

　　“That's all right, air.”

　　“How long will the computer be down?”I wanted to know.

　　“I have no idea. Sometimes it' s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There is no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it' s clown it won't answer us.”

　　After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said,“Let' s forget the computer. What about your planes They're still flying, aren't they?”

　　“I couldn't tell without asking the computer.”

　　“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he' s firing to Washington.”I suggested.

　　“I wouldn't know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn't take you if you didn't have a ticket.”

　　“Is there any other airline firing to Washington within the next few hours?”

　　“I wouldn't know,”she said, pointing at the dark screen.“Only'IT'knows.'IT'cant tell me.”

　　By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The words soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

(1)The best headline for the article is ________.

[　　]

A．Asking Computer of the Airport

B．The Computer of the Airport

C．The Most Frightening Words

D．When the Computer Is Down

(2)What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

[　　]

A．She could answer the passenger' s questions.

B．She could do nothing.

C．She could sell a ticket.

D．She could write out a ticket.

(3)Why do you think they had no backup computer? ________.

[　　]

A．Because it was easy down.

B．Because it was not advanced enough.

C．Because it was not as big as the main computer.

D．Because it was very expensive.

(4)The last paragraph suggests that ________.

[　　]

A．a modem computer won't he down

B．computers can take the place of humans

C．sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people

D．there will be great changes in computers

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　　Mrs Matthews lived in a small town where there was one jeweller's shop. It also took in watch repairs, although it had to send them off to London for the work to be done, as there was not enough business to keep an expert watch repairer occupied.

　　When Mrs Matthews's old father died, she inherited his gold watch, which had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. It was big and heavy and worth a lot of money, but it was broken, so Mrs Matthews took it to be repaired.

　　The man in the jeweller's shop was very interested to see such an unusual watch, and when he had examined its insides, he said he could certainly have it repaired for her. “It'll last a long time once that's been done.”he said. He wrote out a ticket and gave it to Mrs Matthews saying. “Please bring this when you come to pick up the watch. But it might take a bit of time, because it isn't a modem watch.”

　　But Mrs Matthews had a lot of things to think about after her father died. She had to arrange to deal with the various affairs after her father's death.

　　The result was that she completely forgot about the watch that she had taken in for repair, and about the ticket for it, which she had put away in a drawer to keep it safe.

　　Then, while she was looking through some old drawers one day, she found the ticket for the watch repair.

　　She thought back, suddenly she remembered.“My father's gold watch! Didn't I pick it up? When did I take it in?”She looked at the ticket.

　　“How old's this ticket?” she said to herself. It was five years old.

　　Mrs Matthews had heard that shops could sell things that people had left with them if they didn't pick them up and pay for them before a certain time. “But the watch might still be there,”she thought.“I'll go and see if I can get it back. It might have been sold, but I hope not.”

　　She took the ticket to the jeweller's and the shopkeeper looked at it and then went to look for the watch without saying a word.

　　“That's good,”Mrs Matthews thought.“He didn't seem to mind about the date.”

　　The man came back after a few minutes and said,“It won't be ready until Friday.”

1．Who was the watch repairer according to the text?

[　　]

A．Mrs Matthews

B．One jeweller's shop

C．The hired expert watch repairer

D．Some watch repairer in London

2．In the sentence“She inherited his gold watch”, the underlined word “inherited”is closest in meaning to “________”

[　　]

3．In the shop owner's opinion, if the watch has been repaired, what will happen to it?

[　　]

A．It can keep its time for long

B．It is an old watch that can't go fast

C．It can last five years

D．The passage doesn't tell us

4．Five years later, ________.

[　　]

A．the gold watch was sold

B．Mrs Matthews decided to find the ticket in the drawer

C．the jeweller couldn't see the date on the ticket clearly

D．the gold watch was not yet repaired

5．Which title would best fit in with the present passage?

[　　]

A．Mrs Matthews' Death Affairs

B．Such“Fast Work”

C．The Story of Mrs Matthews

D．The History of the Gold Watch

Some people cannot learn in ordinary schools. Physical or    1   handicap(残疾) prevents a child from learning. Today new    2   are being used in special schools to help the disabled learn

　　  A school is being    3   in New Jersey, U.S.A. It is called Bancroft. Here the disabled will be trained to　　 4   themselves and to get along in the outside world.

　　  Bancroft is not surrounded by　　 5   of any kind. Its director insists that it be　　 6   so that students may gradually develop normal relations with the rest of the world. Bancroft students will    7   in apartment, cooking their own meals, and learning to perform other    8   .As they become    9   , they will buy their own furniture, paying for it out of their own earnings. They will pay for their food, too. They will learn to expect　　 10   bills for the calls they make every month.

　　   As a step toward the goal of becoming    11   , each disabled person will decide what kind of work he wants to be    12   to do. While some of the training will be carried on within Bancroft itself, most of the students will receive    13   training in nearby towns. They will be trained by town people.

　　  After the training has been    14    completed, the student will work as an assistant and will begin to earn money. After that he will leave Bancroft, 　　15   the school will continue to give him help if he    16    it.

　　  How long will it take a student to    17   his training under this new system? The director says. “For some a year will be    18   . For others it might take ten years.” For all, however, this method offers new　　 19   .Many will learn to be   20    and independent, supporting themselves in the world.

1．A. spirit　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. mental

C. thought　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   D. body

2．A. plans　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    B. decisions

C. tools　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. methods

3．A. turned up　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. set up

C. searched for　　　　　　　　　　　　   D. longed for

4．A. enjoy　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. teach

C. help　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D. support

5．A. trainers　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  B. students

C. tress　　　　　　　　　　  　　　　　　   D. walls

6．A. free　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  B. open

C. quiet　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D. different

7．A. live　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. study

C. plays　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D. acts

8．A. operations　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    B. tasks

C. plays　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D. acts

9．A. strong　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    B. health

C. able　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D. happy

10．A. telephone　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　B. education

C. housing　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   D. food

11．A. brave　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. clever

C. learned　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D. independent

12．A. asked　　　　　　　　    　　　　　　　　　　  B. sent

C. trained　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. made

13．A. life　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. job

C. body　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D. mind

14．A. successfully　　　　　　　　　　　　    　　　　  B. gradually

C. quickly　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D. hardly

15．A. and　　　　 B. but　　　　 C. so　　　　 D. or

16．A. needs　　   B. asks　　　　 C. gets　　    D. offers

17．A. receive　　   B. get　　　　   C. complete　　   D. stop

18．A. short　　    B. enough　　　　  C. good　　　　   D. long

19．A. ideas　　　　 B. abilities　　    C. time　　　　   D. work

20．A. helpful　　   B. careful　　　　  C. useful　　　　  D. cheerful