【题目】A classical guitarist was excited to hear from New York City police that his valuable guitar had been found. It disappeared almost a year ago when he got out of a cab and forgot to take the guitar with him. Laurence Lennon, 44, said he was running late that day. He was talking to his manager on his cellphone when he dashed out of the taxi. He said that he gave the driver $ 60 and told him to keep the change. He walked through the front doors of the concert hall still talking on the phone to his manager.

Upon discovering his loss, Lennon used his cellphone to call the police. The policewoman asked him for the name of the cab company, the number of the cab, and the name of the driver. He said that she had to be kidding.

She told Lennon that he could file a missing items report at the police station or online. Lennon asked for the online address. She told him that finding the guitar might take a couple of years—finding guitars was not as important as finding murderers and marijuana smokers. Then she told him to have a nice day.

“This year has been depressing,” said Lennon. “I had to postpone the recording of two new CDs. I've been using borrowed guitars. And I was losing hope of ever recovering my guitar.”

Lennon was reunited with his $ 100,000 musical instrument yesterday. The case and the guitar had been discovered in the corner of a coffee house only two blocks from where Lennon had lost it in the first place. Lennon had offered a $ 10,000 reward for its return. He said he would give the reward to the coffee house owner, who had informed the police.

【1】It can be inferred from this reading passage that________.

A.Lennon gave the driver much more money than what was actually needed

B.Lennon couldn't give any useful information about the driver and his cab

C.Lennon was too busy talking to his friend to remember to pay the cab driver

D.Lennon used to work at the concert hall in New York City

【2】The policewoman told Lennon________.

A.not to worry about the guitar

B.to have a nice day in New York City

C.to find the cab driver and talk to him

D.to wait with patience

【3】Which of the following is the most important according to the policewoman?

A.Finding a lost guitar.

B.Finding the cab driver.

C.Finding murderers.

D.Enjoying one's own life

【4】The underlined word“depressing”can be best explained by“________”.

A.making people feel sad

B.making people unfortunate

C.making people losing money

D.making people losing good luck

【5】What do you guess the driver did to the guitar after Lennon left it in the cab?

A. He sold it to someone for 10,000 dollars.

B. He took it to a coffeehouse and then left it there.

C. He gave it to a friend, who lost it some time later.

D. He kept it for himself but then lost it carelessly.

【题目】She was born to wealth and power in an era when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post's publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America's most powerful women.

Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine's love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933. At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine's father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn't object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four.

While Phil's successful efforts to restore the Post to prominence (显著) made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered tremendous pain from her husband's increasingly abusive behavior and wild mood swings caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide (自杀), the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington.

In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents revealing the truth about the United States' involvement in the Vietnam Wr. What's more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate, one of the greatest scandals (丑闻) in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most chaotic (disorder) of situations when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.

【1】 Katharine Graham was born in a time when ______.

A. women were not given the chance to receive education

B. women were not considered as intelligent as men

C. women were not permitted to achieve their goals

D. women were not allowed to enter every field

【2】 When her husband was chosen to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham ______.

A. was strongly against the idea

B. was not happy to be rejected

C. was willing to take her share of responsibility

D. didn't believe her husband would do a good job

【3】 Which of the following statements is true?

A. It was Katharine Graham's husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.

B. When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.

C. Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered severe depression.

D. Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.

【4】 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Ups and downs of The Washington Post.

B. Katharine Graham's family life and career.

C. Katharine Graham: from housewife to successful publisher.

D. Katharine Graham: a woman who shaped American journalism.

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