题目内容
These days, a Chinese girl’s travel diary has become a hit online.
Zhao Xing, with only a 56 (地图), a travel bag and 30 yuan, left the Chinese mainland for the 57 (第一)time to Taiwan. At the 58 (机场), she was helped by a man who even told her his phone number. A bus driver was kind enough to 59 (叫醒)her up when she fell asleep on the ride.
In Taiwan, Zhao told the man who 60 (给)her a ride that she was from Beijing. The man asked if there was 61 (任何事)else he could do to help make her journey 62 (更好的).
“After coming back and thinking over everything I’ve experienced, I realized that the people impressed me the most, not the beautiful scenes or tasty food,” Zhao 63 (写)in her online diary.
From Beijing to Taiwan, so close, so 64 (遥远的)away. Zhao’s wish is to encourage others to realize their 65 (自己的)dreams of making the world a smaller, more friendly place for all.
56. map 57. first 58. airport 59. wake 60. gave 61. anything 62. better 63. wrote 64. far 65. own
The American expression “shoo-in” means someone or something that seems sure to win a race or competition.
Before a big football game, supporters of each are certain to argue about which side will win.
Sometimes, however, one team appears so much stronger than the others that everyone agrees it will win.. The stronger team is a shoo-in. There is no way that it can lose.
The expression “shoo-in” comes from horse racing. It comes from the world “shoo”. That is not the shoe we wear on our feet. It’s another word, S-H-O-O. To shoo is an expression hundreds of years old that means to force an animal to move in a desired direction.
Many years ago dishonest riders sometimes agreed secretly to control their horses so that one chosen horse would win the race. but one of the riders would hold back their horses. The chosen rider would shoo his horse ahead of the others, and win the race.
The other riders would secretly bet large amounts of money that the chosen horse would win. The public soon learned about such about such race. They began to call the winners of such a race a “shoo-in”
These days, people use shoo into describe any athlete or competition that seems certain to win, even without cheating.
American runner Edewin Moses won more than hundred races before he ran the hurdle race in the 1984 Olympic Games. Everyone said Moses was a shoo-in, and that he could not lost. And they were right. He won the gold medal.
阅读上面的短文,从每题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案
【小题1】One of the dishonest riders was sure to win the race because_______.
| A.be used to be the best in riding |
| B.the pubic had belief in him |
| C.he could not control his horse easily |
| D.the other riders had agreed to fail in the race |
“Shoo-in” is _________.
| A.due to his honest in the races he ran in |
| B.duo to his great effort(努力) shown in more than one hundred races |
| C.that he won over 100 competitions before the 1984 Olympic Games |
| D.that the old meaning of “shoo-in’ had changed |
| A.“Shoo-in” came from the word “shoo”. |
| B.The US runner Moses was worthy of (配得上 ) a shoo-in. |
| C.The public did not know they were being cheated |
| D.Some riders bet a lot of money on the chosen horse. |
| A.used for anyone or anything that is certain to win a game |
| B.used to admire( 钦佩 ) a person who seems to be sure to win a race |
| C.A word used to describe a dishonest person |
| D.used for any athlete or competitor that too clever to be cheated |
| A.who Edewin Moses was |
| B.Moses won a lot of races |
| C.Moses was the best runners in America |
| D.We can use “shoo-in” to describe an excellent runner. |