When I was a teenager growing up in Russia, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local brick factory in my town, or get married. I was nervous when I told my father I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, " No! You are going to college. " He took me by surprise when he said, "OK. We'll go to the brick factory. "
Two days later, he took me to the factory. I had a very romantic idea of working in a factory. ' I had imagined everyone to be friends working together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager.
When we arrived at the factory gates, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were inside. My father said, "Take your time. Look around." I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was horrible. I ran back to my. father and said, "I want to go home. "
He asked me, "What do you think of the factory?"
"It's terrible," I replied.
"And marriage is even worse!" he said.
I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard so I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the brick factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!
【小题1】 The writer lived in_________ when she was a teenager.
A. Russia B. Japan C. China
【小题2】At first she thought life in the factory would be _       _ than in school.
A. more careful B. more colorful C. more beautiful
【小题3】When she told her father that she wanted to leave school, he expressed his disagreement________.
A. by doing nothing    B. in a special way C. by saying nothing
【小题4】 After they visited the factory, the girl________.
A. decided to work there        B. decided to get married        C. changed her mind
【小题5】The underlined word "horrible" means "_     _" in Chinese.
A. 糟糕的    B. 紧张的   C. 浪漫的

根据短文内容,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。(共15分,每小题1分)

Music can spread across everywhere and narrow the distance (缩短距离 ) between people of different countries.  1 . NBA star Kobe Bryant worked with music super-star Jay Chou to create a song.The Heaven and Earth Challenge{(天地之斗)}. The song is used in the recent advertisement  3  the soft drinks company Sprite, and the two superstars shot ( 拍摄 ) the advertisement  4  on TV.

The song was written by Jay, whose favoriteis basketball. It expresses the love for basketball and  6  encourages young people to be more confident(信心 ) about them selves. Jay  7  that he learned a lot from Kobe’s sports spirit 8  creating the song. He does most of the singing part while Kobe  9 the role as a rapper ( 说唱歌手 ). The basketball star is very confident with his play.  "I love  10  … My part is talk, it's very relaxing and I did a  11  job, it must be A﹡.''Kobe was very happy to 12  with Jay. "1 fell in love with Jay's music since first  13 his songs," Kobe added.

People can download the ring tone (下载铃声) of the song from the Internet. All  14  from the downloads will go to Project Hope, a charity (慈善 ) that helps improve educational facilities (设备) in 15 areas in China.

1.                A.American       B.Canadian        C.Japanese  D.British

 

2.A. shown           B. named           C. used             D sold

3.A. with            B, on               C, for              D. from

4.A. as usual         B. at last            C, luckily           D. together

5.A. time            B, sport            C. thing             D. play

6.A. also            B, then             C, still              D, soon

7.A, told            B, spoke            C, said              D, talked

8.A, why           B, whether           C, unless            D, when

9.A, gets            B. sees              C, thinks            D, sends

10.A, you            B. them             C, it                  D. myself

11.               A.common        B.great          C.little  D.important

 

12.               A.live            B.go             C.stay  D.work

 

13.               A.trying          B.knowing        C.hearing   D.writing

 

14.               A.songs          B.money         C.papers    D.wishes

 

15.A. poor           B. rich              C. famous             D, good

 

A

One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I give twenty dollars.” “All right” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the elephants?” “I didn’t find the bad ears” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?” asked the old man. The young man answers, “Because I never saw an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

1                 the elephant.

A. The young man sells      B. The old man sells

C. The two men sell         D. The old man buys

2 The young man looks at the elephants. He wants to find    

A. some meat              B. some money  

C. bad ears                D. what it looks like

3 The young man looks at the elephant slowly because he     

A. wants to find something    B. likes the elephant

C. helps the old man         D. doesn’t see the elephant before

4 Hearing what the young man said, the old man will be     

A. angry     B. happy     C. dangerous     D. hungry

5 A. knows the elephant has bad ears

B. wants the elephant

C. looks after the elephants      

D. will not get any money from the old man

  B

Many young people in China know about Celine Dion (席琳•迪翁),the famous French Canadian pop singer. She sang the song “ My heart will go on” for the movie Titanic. But do you know she had already become popular before she sang this song.

Celine Dion’s hometown was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the youngest of the fourteen children in a musical family. Her parents and the large family formed a singing group. They traveled and played folk music. They were well known in their hometown. Celine’s mother wrote her first song for her, and she recorded it with her brother when she was twelve years old. Then a local rock manager named Rene Angelil was interested in them. He asked Mrs Dion to take her two children to come to his office. Later on he gave strong support for Celine. In 1994, they were married.

As a singing star, Celine Dion won many prizes and soon became popular all over the world. She sang at the opening of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA. In 1997, she made the whole world hit with the song “My heart will go on”.                                  

6Celine Dion was a _______.

        A. drawer   B. scientist    C. singer    D. manager

7There were _______ people in Celine’s family.

        A. 15      B. 16         C. 17       D. 18

8Celine Dion’s family were ______ in their hometown.

        A. famous   B. rich        C. poor     D. kind

9 Celine Dion recorded her first song with ______.

        A. her sister B. her mother   C. her father   D. her brother

10 In _____, Celine Dion sang at the opening of the Olympic Cames.

        A. 1999     B. 1998       C. 1997      D. 1996  

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