题目内容
_________like this I usually stay home with my parents.
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A. All the time B. At one time C. At a time D. At times
口算能手系列答案I began working in journalism when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.
With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. When it was suppertime, I walked back home.
“ How many did you sell, my boy?” my mother asked.
“ None.”
“ Where did you go?”
“ The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.”
“ What did you do?”
“ Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.”
“ You just stood there?”
“ Didn’t sell a single one.”
“ My God, Russell!”
Uncle Allen put in, “ Well, I’ve decided to take the Post.” I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickel. It was the first nickel I earned.
Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with self-confidence, and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.
One day, I told my mother I’d changed my mind. I didn’t want to make a success in the magazine business.
“ If you think you can change your mind like this,” she replied, “ you’ll become a good-for-nothing.” She insisted that, as soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said no, she would scold me.
My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father’s plain workman’s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband’s people for true life and love.
1.Why did the boy start his job young?
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A．He wanted to be famous in the future. |
B．The job was quite easy for him. |
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C．His mother had high hopes for him. |
D．The competition for the job was fierce. |
2.From the dialogue between the boy and his mother, we learn that the mother was _______.
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A．excited |
B．interested |
C．ashamed |
D．disappointed |
3.What did the mother do when the boy wanted to give up?
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A．She forced him to continue. |
B．She punished him. |
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C．She gave him some money. |
D．She changed her plan. |
4.What is the text mainly about?
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A．The early life of a journalist. |
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B．The early success of a journalist. |
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C．The happy childhood of the writer. |
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D．The important role of the writer in his family. |
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. If Mary carries on working like this, she will ______ sooner or later.
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A．put down |
B．get down |
C．break down |
D．go down |