73. What caused Kemmons to start a motel by himself?

　 A. His terrible experience in the hotel.

　 B. His previous business success of various levels.

　 C. His mom’s support.

　 D. His wife’s suggestion.

72. According to the author, who played the most important role in making him walk back to school again?

　 A. Doctors.　　　　　　　　　　 B. Nurses.　　　　　　　　　 C. Friends.　　　　　　　　　　 D. Mom.

71. What Kemmons’ mom often told him during his childhood was ______.

　 A. caring　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. moving　　　　　　　　　 C. encouraging　　　 　　　　 D. interesting

66.Which of the following happened first?

A. The cougar jumped from the rock

B. Tom struggled free of his father

C. Jeb asked Tom to get the knife

D. Jeb held Tom across his body

答案　 63.B　 64.D　 65.A　 66.D

Passage 32

(07·江苏E篇)

Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.

My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”

At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school - walking on my own!

When the Great Depression (大萧条) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.

Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.

Not surprisingly, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world - Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.

You may not have started out life in the best situation. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.

65.How didi Jeb try to hold the cougar’s attention?

A. By keeping shouting and hitting

B. By makding a wall out of his arms

C. By throwing himself on the cougar

D. By swinging his fists at the cougar’s eyes

64.What do we know about cougars?

A. They are afraid of noises

B. They hesitate before they hit

C. They are bigger than we think

D. They like to attack running people

63.Why did Jeb pull his jacket open when he saw the cougar?

A. To get ready to fight

B. To frighten it away

C. To protect the boy

D. To cool down

52.From the text we can learn that ____. A. one should be nicer to important people　　　　　

B. CEOs often show their power before　 others C. one should respect others no matter who they are D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants

答案　 49.C　 50.A　　 51.D　 52.C

Passage 31

(07·北京C篇)

Lying in the sun on a rock,the cougar(美洲豹)saw Jeb and his son,Tom before they saw it.Jeb put his bag down quickly and pulled his jacket open with both hands,making himself look big to the cougar,It worked.The cougar hesitated,ready to attack Jeb,but ready to forget the whole thing,too.

Jeb let go of his kacked,grasped Tom and held him across his body,making a cross.Now the cougar’s enemy looked even bigger,and it rose up,ready to move away,but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.

“Tom,no”shouted his father.

But Tom brokd and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar.The second Tom broke free,Jeb threw himself on the cougar,just as it jumped from the rock.They hit each other in mid-air and both fell,The cougar was on Jeb in a flash,fotgeiting about Tomm,which was what Jeb wanted.

Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined manstands a chance,even with just his fists.As the cougar’s claws(爪子)got into his left shoulder,Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard.The animal howled(吼叫)and put its head back.Jeb followed up with his other fist.Then out of the corner of his eye.Jeb saw Tom.The boy was running back to help his father.

“Knife,Tom,”shouted Jeb.

The boy ran to his father’s bag,while Jeb strated shouting as well as hitting,to keep the cougar’s attention away from Tom.Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb.The cougar was moving its head in and out,trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms.Tom swung with the knife,into the cougar’s back.It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.

The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds.

51.According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about ____. A. Fortune 500 companies　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. the Management Rules C. Swanson’s book　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. the Waiter Rule

50.Odland leaned one of his life lessons from ____. A. his experience as a waiter.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. the advice given by the CEOs C. an article in Fortune　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. an interesting best-selling book